1734 in literature

1734 in literature

The year 1734 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
* Copies of Voltaire's "Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais" are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
* "Le Cabinet du Philosophe", a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched.

New books

* Anonymous - "A Rap at the Rhapsody" (on Swift's 1733 "On Poetry")
* Jean Adam - "Miscellany Poems"
* Joseph Addison - "A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning" (posth.)
* John Arbuthnot - "Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself"
* Francis Atterbury - "Sermons"
* Henry Brooke - "Design and Beauty: an Epistle"
* Isaac Hawkins Browne - "On Design and Beauty"
* Dimitrie Cantemir - "History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire" (1734 is the date of the first publishing, as the book had been circulating in manuscript)
* Robert Dodsley - "An Epistle to Mr. Pope"
* Stephen Duck - "Truth and Faslehood"
* William Dunkin
**"The Lover's Web"
**"The Poet's Prayer"
* John Jortin - "Remarks on Spenser's Poems"
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - "The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room" (on Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room")
* Alexander Pope
**"Essay on Man"
**"An Epistle to Lord Cobham" ("Moral Epistle I")
**"The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace"
**"Sober Advice from Horace"
* Jonathan Richardson - "Explanatory Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost"
* George Sale - "The Koran"
* Emanuel Swedenborg - "Opera philosophica et mineralia"
* Jonathan Swift - "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed"
* Robert Tatersal - "The Bricklayer's Miscellany"
* Joseph Trapp - "Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things" ("Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell")

New drama

* Henry Carey, as "Benjamin Bounce"
**"Chrononhotonthologos"
**"The Dragon of Wantley" (burlesque)
* Henry Fielding
**"Don Quixote in England"
**"The Intriguing Chambermaid"
* Carlo Goldoni - "Belisario"
* James Miller - "The Mother-in-Law" (adapted from "Molière"'s "Le Malade imaginaire" and "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac")
* James Ralph - "The Cornish Squire"
* António José da Silva - "Esopaida"
* James Thomson - "The Tragedy of Sophonisba"

Poetry

* Mary Barber - "Poems"
*"See also 1734 in poetry"

Births

* July 25 - Ueda Akinari, Japanese poet and novelist (died 1809)
* October 23 - Rétif de la Bretonne, novelist (died 1806)
* December 31 - Claude Joseph Dorat, "Le Chevalier Dorat" (died 1780)
* "Date unknown" - Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish writer (died 1800).

Deaths

* January 6 - John Dennis, dramatist (born 1657)
* March 1 - Roger North (17th century), biographer (born 1653)
*"date unknown"
**Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (born 1680)
**Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, writer of fairy tales (born 1664)
**James Moore Smythe, dramatist (born 1702)


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