1759 in literature

See also: 1758 in literature, other events of 1759, 1760 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

New Books

• Candide - Voltaire
• Fables - Gotthold Lessing
• Rasselas[?] - Samuel Johnson

Births

• January 25 : Robert Burns
• April 27 : Mary Wollstonecraft
• November 10 : Friedrich Schiller

Deaths

• August 24 : Ewald Christian von Kleist
• William Collins (poet)