- 1728 in literature
The year 1728 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
*The "Universal Spectator" and "Weekly Journal" are founded by
Daniel Defoe and his son-in-law, Henry Baker
*Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan launch "The Intelligencer" (periodical).
* John Rich, manager of the theatre atLincoln's Inn Fields , mounts the first production of "The Beggar's Opera " byJohn Gay . Its great success makes "Rich gay and Gay rich."New books
* Anonymous - "Memoirs of an English Officer" "by Captain George Carleton"
*Joseph Addison - "The Christian Poet" (posth.)
*Penelope Aubin - "The Life and Adventures of the Young Count Albertus" (sequel)
*Peter Browne - "The Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding"
*Ephraim Chambers - "Cyclopaedia, or, A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences "
* Thomas Cooke - "The Works of Hesiod" (first translation ofHesiod into English)
*John Dennis - "Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock"
*Henry Fielding - "The Masquerade" ("by Lemuel Gulliver")
*James Gibbs - "A Book of Architecture"
*Eliza Haywood - "The Agreeable Caledonian"
*Francis Hutcheson - "An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections"
*David Mallet - "The Excursion"
*John Oldmixon
**"The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick"
**"An Essay on Criticism"
*Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie - "The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565" (written about 1575, in theScots language )
*Christopher Pitt - "An Essay on Virgil's Aeneid"
*Alexander Pope - "The Dunciad "
*James Ralph
**"Night"
**"Sawney" (answer to "Dunciad")
**"Zeuma"*
Elizabeth Rowe - "Friendship in Death"
*Richard Savage - "The Bastard"
** - "Nature in Perfection"
*George Sewell - "Posthumous Works of Dr. George Sewell"
*Thomas Sheridan - "The Satyrs of Persius"
*Jonathan Swift - "A Short View of the State of Ireland"
* James Thomson - "Spring" (part of "The Four Seasons")
*Ned Ward - "Durgen" (satire of "a Pompous Satyrist")
*William Wycherley - "The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley", edited by Lewis Theobald (part of Theobald's and Curll's battle with Pope and other "Tory" wits)
*Edward Young
**"Ocean"
**"A Vindication of Providence"New drama
*
Colley Cibber & SirJohn Vanbrugh - "A Journey to London"
*Henry Fielding - "Love in Several Masques"
*John Gay - "The Beggar's Opera " (opera)
*Pierre de Marivaux - "Le Trionphe de Plutus"
*John Mottley - "The Craftsman"
*Alexis Piron - "Les Fils ingrats"
*Lewis Theobald - "Double Falsehood, or the Distress'd Lovers" (reportedly adapted from "Cardenio ", by Fletcher andShakespeare )
* Sir John Vanbrugh - "The Provok'd Husband"Poetry
* Allan Ramsay - "Poems"
Births
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January 9 -Thomas Warton (died1790 )
*September 14 -Mercy Otis Warren (died1814 )
*November 10 -Oliver Goldsmith (died1774 )
*Robert Bage , novelistDeaths
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January 28 -Esther Johnson known as "Stella ", inspiration ofJonathan Swift (born1681 )
*September 23 -Christian Thomasius , publisher and general author (born1655 )
*"date unknown" -Gabriel Daniel , Jesuit historian (born1649 )
*Cotton Mather
*White Kennett
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