- 1731 in literature
The year 1731 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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The Gentleman's Magazine " is launched byEdward Cave New books
* Anonymous - "The Life of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell"
* Corporate authorship - "The Gentleman's Magazine"
*Nicholas Amhurst as "Caleb D'Anvers" - "A Collection of Poems"
*Thomas Bayes - "Divine Benevolence"
*Samuel Boyse - "Translations and Poems Written on Several Subjects"
*Ralph Cudworth - "A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality" (posth.)
*Robert Dodsley - "An Epistle from a Footman in London to the Celebrated Stephen Duck"
** - "A Sketch of the Miseries of Poverty"
*Henry Fielding - "The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb"
*Aaron Hill - "Advice to the Poets"
* William King - "An Essay on the Origin of Evil" (transl. from Latin)
*William Law - "The Case of Reason"
*William Oldys - "A Dissertation Upon Pamphlets"
*Alexander Pope - "An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington" ("Epistle to Burlington," and known to contemporaries as "Of False Taste")
*Elizabeth Rowe - "Letters Moral and Entertaining"
*Joseph Trapp - "The Works of Virgil"New drama
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Matthew Concanen , Edward Roome, & SirWilliam Yonge - "The Jovial Crew" (opera, adapted fromRichard Brome 's "A Jovial Crew ")
*Theophilus Cibber - "The Lover"
*Charles Coffey & John Mottley - "The Devil to Pay" (musical adaptation of the play byThomas Jevon )
* Thomas Cooke - "The Triumphs of Love and Honour"
*Henry Fielding - "The Letter-Writers"
*Philip Frowde - "Philotas"
*Aaron Hill - "Athelwold"
* Charles Johnson - "The Tragedy of Medea"
*George Lillo - "The London Merchant"
** - "George Barnwell"
* David Mallet - "Eurydice"
* Joseph Mitchell - "The Highland Fair"
*James Ralph - "The Fall of the Earl of Essex"Births
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November 26 -William Cowper , poet (died1800 )
*December 12 -Erasmus Darwin , naturalist (died1802 )Deaths
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April 21 -Daniel Defoe (born c.1660 )
*December 26 -Antoine Houdar de la Motte , dramatist (born1672 )
*Mary Astell , English feminist
*Penelope Aubin , dramatist
*Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery , Jacobite leader and author
*Ned Ward , wit and essayist
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