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1732 poetry literature
This article covers 1732 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
Colonial America
Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"):
"An Elegy on [. . .] William Lock"Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
"In Memory of [. . .] Benedict Leonard Calvert
Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry
Richard Lewis:
"A Description of Spring"Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
"Carmen Saeculare"
attributed, "A Rhapsody"
United Kingdom
Anonymous, Castle-Howard, has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess IrwinCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Anonymous, Collection of PiecesClark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 38, Franklin, Burt, 1971, 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
Anonymous, The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing-Room, "By Miss W----" (a reply to Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room, also published this year)
Robert Dodsley, A Muse on Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany
John Gay,Acis and Galatea: An English pastoral opera, Gay wrote the libretto for Handel's music
George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose
William King, The Toast: An epic poem, although the book claimed to be a translation from the Latin of "Frederick Scheffer", it was an original work by King
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, published anonymously
John Milton, Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
Richard Savage:
An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
Editor, A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose [...] Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets
Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, published anonymously
Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope and others, Miscellanies: The Third Volume, in fact, it was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735)
Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal
Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published
Other
Albrecht Haller, Attempt at Swiss Poems, German language, SwitzerlandThomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
Heyat Mahmud, Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali language, Bengal SubahHeyat Mamud Wakil Ahmed
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February – Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet and satirist
February 21 – William Falconer (lost at sea c. 1770), Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden (born 1681), German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker (born 1652), English-born poet and playwright
July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys (born 1674), Irish poet and playwright
December 4 – John Gay (born 1685), English poet and playwright
Also – Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; born c. 1665), English Colonial American poet
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
18th century in poetry
18th century in literature
Augustan poetry
Scriblerus Club
Notes
"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
Category:18th-century poetry
Poetry