This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1760.
Events
January – Oliver Goldsmith's series of fictionalised "letters from a Chinese philosopher," later collected in The Citizen of the World, begins in The Public Ledger.[1]
Jupiter Hammon's poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries" is published as a broadside in British America, making him the first known published African American author.[3][4]
The play Edward III is attributed to William Shakespeare by the noted Shakespearean editor Edward Capell in his Prolusions; or, Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry, Compil'd with great Care from their several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publicke as Specimens of the Integrity that should be Found in the Editions of worthy Authors.
^O'Neale, Sondra (2002). "Hammon, Jupiter". In Andrews, William L.; Foster, Frances Smith; Harris, Trudier (eds.). The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN9780195138832.