1738 in literature

1738 in literature

The year 1738 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Robert Blair marries Isabella Law.
* Beginning of the mental decline of Jonathan Swift.
* Laurence Sterne is ordained.
* Richard Dawes becomes master of the grammar school at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
* "Jenkins' Ear" a cause in Parliament.

New books

* Anonymous - "Memoirs of a Man of Quality" (transl.)
* Mark Akenside - "A British Philippic"
* John Banks - "Miscellaneous Works"
* Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - "De ordine in audiendis philosophicis per triennium academicum quaedam praefatus acroases proximae aestati destinatas indicit Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten"
* Louis de Beaufort - "Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine"
* Elizabeth Carter - "Poems"
* Alexander Cruden - "A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament"
* Robert Dodsley - "The Art of Preaching"
** - "Sir John Cockle at Court"
* John Gay - "Fables: Volume the Second"
* Samuel Johnson - "London"
* Pierre Louis Maupertuis - "Sur la figure de la terre"
* Alexander Pope - "The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated"
** - "The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated"
** with Jonathan Swift - "An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace"
** - "One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight"
** - "The Universal Prayer"
** - "One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II"
* Frances Seymour - "The Story of Inkle and Yarrico"
* Jonathan Swift - "The Beasts Confession to the Priest"
** - "A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation"
* James Thomson - "Works"
* William Warburton - "The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated"
** - "A Vindication of the author of the Divine Legation of Moses"
* John Wesley - "A Collection of Psalms and Hymns"
* George Whitefield - "A Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia"

New drama

* Robert Dodsley - "Sir John Cockle at Court"
* Sir Hildebrand Jacob - "The Happy Constancy"
** - "The Prodigal Reformed"
** - "The Trial of Conjugal Love"
* George Lillo - "Marina" (adapted from Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre")
* James Miller - "Art and Nature"
* António José da Silva - "Precipicio de Faetonte"
* James Thomson - "Agamemnon"

Births

*May 12 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist (died 1804)
*June 21 - Gottlieb Christoph Harless, bibliographer (died 1815)
*July 24 - Betje Wolff, novelist (died 1804)
*"date unknown"
**Richard Chandler, antiquary
**Manuel Lassala, dramatist and philosopher

Deaths

*April 25 - James Laderchi, ecclesiastical historian
*June 5 - Isaac de Beausobre, theologian
*July 8 - Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer
*September 23 - Herman Boerhaave, humanist writer
*"date unknown"
**John Asgill, pamphleteer
**Jean-Baptiste Labat, polymath
** Laurence Eusden, poet and poet laureate
** Hildebrand Jacob
** George Lillo, playwright


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