1732 in literature

1732 in literature

The year 1732 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The first edition of "Poor Richard's Almanac", by Benjamin Franklin, is published.
* Alexander Pope begins "Essay on Man", with the first two "Epistles: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (1) "The Universe" and (2) "Himself as an Individual" (the 3rd/4th were written in 1733/1744).
*The first Royal Opera House at Covent Garden opens on December 7.

New books

* Anonymous - "Castle-Howard"
** - "The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing Room" (reply to Swift)
** - "A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose . . . on Occasion of the Dunciad"
* Corporate authorship - "the London Magazine" (periodical)
* 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"
* John Horsley - "Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain"
* William King - "The Toast"
* George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - "The Progress of Love"
* John Milton - "Milton's Paradise Lost", edited by Richard Bentley
* Daniel Neal - "The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists"
* Richard Savage - "An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole"
* 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"

Newly printed plays

* Henry Carey - "Amelia" (opera)
** - "The Disappointment"
** - "Terminta"
* Henry Fielding - "The Lottery"
** - "The Modern Husband"
** - "The Covent-Garden Tragedy"
** - "The Old Debauchees"
** - "The Mock Doctor"
* John Gay (with Alexander Pope) - "Acis and Galatea" (opera by Handel)
* John Kelly - "The Married Philosopher"

Births

* January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
* February 19 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist) (died 1811)
* September 29 - Samuel Musgrave, classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
* "unknown date" - George Colman the Elder (died 1794)
* John Ogilvie
* Franz Joseph Haydin
* George Washington, American President

Deaths

* February 22 - Francis Atterbury (born 1663)
* March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, poet and lexicographer (born 1681)
* December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)
* Jane Barker, dramatist and poet
* Mary Davys, poet and dramatist


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