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1732 literature poetry
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1732.
Events
April – The London Magazine is founded in opposition to the pro-Tory Gentlemen's Magazine.The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review https://books.google.com/books?id=_bLPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6 1857 Bradbury, Evans 6
December 7 – The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich with a revival of William Congreve's The Way of the World.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006
December 13 – The first issue of Then Swänska Argus, by Olof von Dalin, is published in Sweden, introducing the "younger new Swedish" (yngre nysvenska) literary language.
December 28 – The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin, is published in America.
unknown date – Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed.Library Association The Library Association Record https://books.google.com/books?id=VI4aAAAAMAAJ 1961 Library Association 45-46
New books
Prose
George Berkeley – Alciphron
Johann Jakob Bodmer – translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost into German prose
Elizabeth Boyd – The Happy-Unfortunate
Mary Davys – The False Friend (fiction)
Philip Doddridge – Sermons on the Religious Education of Children
Robert Dodsley – A Muse in Livery
George Granville, Lord Lansdowne – The Genuine Works
Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Sultanes de Guzarate, contes mogols (Mogul Tales; or, the Dreams of Men Awake)
John Horsley – Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain
William King – The Toast
Alain-René Lesage – Les avantures de monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchêne, capitaine de flibustiers dans la Nouvelle-France (The Adventures of Robert Chevalier, Call'd de Beauchene, Captain of a Privateer in New-France)Biography – CHEVALIER, Beauchêne, ROBERT – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chevalier_robert_2E.html www.biographi.ca 8 March 2019
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – The Progress of Love
Daniel Neal – The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists
Richard Savage – An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
Philip Skippon – An Account of a Journey Made Thro ̓ Part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France
Jonathan Swift
The Lady's Dressing Room
The Grand Question Debated
(with Pope and others) Miscellanies: The Third Volume
Isaac Watts – A Short View of the Whole Scripture History
Leonard Welsted – Of Dulness and Scandal (answer to The Dunciad)
Gilbert West – Stowe
Martín Sarmiento – Demostración apologética
Drama
Henry Carey
Amelia (opera)
The Disappointment
Terminta
Henry Fielding
The Lottery
The Modern Husband
The Covent-Garden Tragedy
The Old Debauchees
The Mock Doctor (performed)
John Gay (with Alexander Pope) – Acis and Galatea (opera by Handel)
Charles Johnson – Caelia
John Kelly – The Married Philosopher
Pierre de Marivaux – The Triumph of Love (Le Triomphe de l'amour)
James Miller – The Modish Couple
Voltaire – Zaïre
Poetry
1732 in poetry
Heyat Mahmud – Sarbabhedbāṇī; BengaliHeyat Mamud Wakil Ahmed
John Milton – Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
Births
January 6 – Matija Antun Relković, Croatian grammarian and poet (died 1798)
January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799) Morton Brian Beaumarchais and the American Revolution Lexington Books Lanham, Md 2003 9780739104682 1
February – Charles Churchill, English satirist and poet (died 1764)
February 19 – Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (died 1811)
April – George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (died 1794)
August 24 – Peter Ernst Wilde, German physician, journalist and printer (died 1785)
September 29 – Samuel Musgrave, English classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
Deaths
February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (born 1640)Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward William Leist ReadwinCates Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical Lee and Shepard 1872 426
February 22 – Bishop Francis Atterbury, English politician and writer (born 1663)
March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German poet and lexicographer (born 1681)Catholic Encyclopedia Appleton 1910 131
March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker, English dramatist and poet (born 1652)
May 9 – Samuel Palmer, English printer (year of birth unknown)
July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1674) Harte Liam The literature of the Irish in Britain : autobiography and memoir, 1725-2001 Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke England New York 2009 9780230234017 1
December 2 – Constantia Grierson, Irish poet and classical scholar (born c. 1705)
December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685) Brant Clare Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716 Oxford University Press Oxford New York 2007 9780199280490 10
December 22 – Joseph Thurston, English poet (born 1704)Fragmenta Genealogica: Volume 8 https://books.google.com/books?id=BiqdSpQaF3QC&pg=PA69 December 1996 Heritage Books 978-0-7884-0578-5 69
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