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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1752.

Events[]

Scene from Samuel Foote's satire Taste with the playwright cross-dressed as Lady Pentweazel (painting by Robert Smirke)

January 4 – The Paper War of 1752–1753 begins with the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal, where Henry Fielding starts a long quarrel with John Hill by declaring war against hack writers.^[1] Tobias Smollett soon becomes involved, accusing Fielding of plagiarism.
February 29 – Thomas Sheridan introduces at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin a version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus that incorporates parts of the version by James Thomson, as Coriolanus, or The Roman Matron.^[2]
September 15 – At Williamsburg, Virginia, Lewis Hallam begins a North American tour with his brother William's company, with a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.^[3]
unknown date – The first of the Herculaneum papyri are discovered.^[4]

Moses Browne – The Works and Rest of the Creation
John Byrom – Enthusiasm
Richard Owen Cambridge – A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament and His Servant
Thomas Cooke – Pythagoras
William Mason – Elfrida
Christopher Smart – Poems

George Ballard – Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for their Writing or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences
George Berkeley – A Miscellany
Thomas Birch – The Life of John Tillotson
Francis Blackburne – A Serious Inquiry into the Use and Importance of External Religion
William Dodd – The Beauties of Shakespeare
Henry Fielding as "Sir Alexander Drawcansir" – The Covent-Garden Journal (periodical)
John Hawkesworth – The Adventurer (periodical)
David Hume – Political Discourses^[6]
William Law
- The Spirit of Love
- The Way to Divine Knowledge
Henry St. John – Letters on the Study and Use of History
José Francisco de Isla – Cartas de Juan de la Encina
Diego de Torres Villarroel – Obra`

January 3 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian (died 1809)
February 17 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist (died 1831)^[7]
June 13 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840)
November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (died 1770)

September 19 – Louis Fuzelier, French dramatist (born 1672)
September 22 – Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (born 1676)
October 24 – Christian Falster, Danish poet and philologist (born 1690)
November 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German New Testament commentator (born 1687)
November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (born 1670)
Unknown date – Li E (厲鶚), Chinese poet (born 1692)

^ Poetical Works p. 443.
^ John Ripley (1998). Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-8386-3741-8.
^ Joshua R. LeHuray (27 May 2016). Virginians Will Dance or Die!: The Importance of Music in Pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg. McFarland. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4766-6284-8.
^ Kenneth Lapatin (16 July 2019). Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Getty Publications. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-60606-592-1.
^ Susan Carlile (1 January 2018). Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4426-2623-2.
^ Wennerlind, Carl (2005). "David Hume's Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?". Journal of Political Economy. 113 (1): 223–237. doi:10.1086/426037. ISSN 0022-3808. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Ayres, H.M. (1917). "Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831)". The Reader's Dictionary of Authors. New York: Warner Library Co. Retrieved 24 March 2019.