1746 in literature

The year 1746 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Voltaire is elected to the French Academy.
• The oldest manuscript of Jean de Joinville's Life of Saint Louis is rediscovered in Brussels.
• Élie Catherine Fréron founds the controversial journal, Lettres de la comtesse de...
• Spranger Barry makes his London stage debut in Othello.

New books

• John Arbuthnot - Miscellanies (posth.)
• John Collier as "Tim Bobbin" - A View of the Lancashire Dialect
• William Collins - Odes
• Thomas Cooke - A Hymn to Liberty
• Zachary Grey - A Word or Two of Advice to William Warburton
• James Hervey - Meditations Among the Tombs
• Soame Jenyns - The Modern Fine Gentleman
• Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Astronomie nautique, volume 2
• Tobias Smollett - Advice
• John Upton - Critical Observations on Shakespeare
• Horace Walpole - The Beauties
• Joseph Warton - Odes on Various Subjects
• John Wesley
• The Principles of a Methodist Father Explain'd
• Sermons on Several Occasions

Poetry

• Thomas Blacklock - Poems
• See also 1746 in poetry

Births

• January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educational reformer (died 1827)
• March 27 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (died 1767)
• James Wyatt

Deaths

• February 4 - Robert Blair (poet), Scottish poet (born 1699)
• May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (born 1660)
• December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665)