1730 in literature

1730 in literature

The year 1730 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Voltaire's "Brutus" is finally staged.
* Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
* Metastasio settles in Vienna.
*"The Grub-Street Journal" is launched; it will last for 418 issues.

New books

* Joseph Addison - "The Evidence of the Christian Religion" (posth.)
* John Banks - "The Weaver's Miscellany"
* Thomas Cooke as "Scriblerus Tertius" - "The Candidates for the Bays"
* Philip Doddridge - "Free Thoughts on the Most Probable Means of Reviving the Dissenting Interest"
* Johann Christoph Gottsched - "Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen"
* John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey - "Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman"
* George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - "An Epistle to Mr. Pope"
* Jonathan Swift - "A Libel on D--- D------, and a Certain Great Lord"
* Matthew Tindal - "Christianity as Old as Creation"
* William Whiston - "Life of Samuel Clarke"
* William Wotton - "A Discourse Concerning the Confusion of Languages at Babel" (posth.)
* Edward Young - "Two Epistles to Mr. Pope"

New drama

* Theophilus Cibber - "Patie and Peggy" (opera)
* Henry Fielding
**"The Author's Farce"
**"Rape upon Rape"
**"The Temple Beau"
**"Tom Thumb"
* George Lillo - "Silvia"
* Pierre de Marivaux - "Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard"
* James Miller - "The Humours of Oxford"
* John Mottley - "The Widow Bewitch'd"
* Gabriel Odingsells - "Bay's Opera"
*James Ralph - "The Fashionable Lady"
* James Thomson - "The Tragedy of Sophonisba"

Poetry

* Stephen Duck - "Poems on Several Subjects"
* Matthew Pilkington - "Poems on Several Occasions"
* Elizabeth Thomas - "The Metamorphosis of the Town"
* James Thomson - "The Seasons"
*"See also 1730 in poetry"

Births

* March 27 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, critic (died 1786)
* April 1 - Solomon Gessner (died 1788)
* August 20 - Paul Henri Mallet (died 1807)
* November 10 (probable) - Oliver Goldsmith (died 1774)
* July 12 - Josiah Wedgwood (died 1795)

Deaths

*January 7 - Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)
*February 9 - Johann Georg von Eckhart, historian (born 1664)
*September 27 - Laurence Eusden, Poet Laureate (born 1688)
*October 23 - Anne Oldfield, actress (born 1683)
* "date unknown"
**Laurence Echard, historian (born c. 1670)
**Elijah Fenton, poet (born 1683)
**Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680)


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