1759 in literature

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

Events

New Books

• Candide – Voltaire
• Fables – Gotthold Lessing
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia – Samuel Johnson
• Theory of Moral Sentiments – Adam Smith

Births

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

Deaths

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