1771 in literature - Definition

See also: 1770 in literature, other events of 1771, 1772 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
• The West Indian (play) - Richard Cumberland
• Les Sacrifices de l'amour - Claude Joseph Dorat

Births

• August 14 - Walter Scott
• December 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth
• John Lingard

Deaths

• July 30 - Thomas Gray (* 1716)