1739 in literature

1739 in literature

The year 1739 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* War between the United Kingdom and Spain begins.
* Celebrity hanging of Dick Turpin.
* Handel's "Saul" performed.
* John Wesley and George Whitefield both give their first open-air sermons.
* Henry Brooke's drama "Gustavus Vasa" is the first play banned under the Licensing Act of 1737.

New books

* Corporate authorship - "The Scots Magazine" (periodical)
* Penelope Aubin - "A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels"
* Henry Baker and James Miller - "The Works of Moliere, French and English" (transl.)
* Moses Browne - "Poems"
* Elizabeth Carter - "Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man" (transl.)
** - "Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of Ladies" (transl.)
* Mary Collier - "The Woman's Labour" (an answer to Stephen Duck from the "milkmaid poet")
* Philip Doddridge - "The Family Expositor"
* Henry Fielding as "Captain Hercules Vinegar" - "The Champion" (periodical)
* Richard Glover - "London"
* David Hume - "A Treatise of Human Nature"
* William Law - "The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration"
* Mikhail Lomonosov - "Ode on the Taking of Khotin from the Turks"
* John Mottley as "Elijah Jenkins" - "Joe Miller's Jests; or, the Wits Vade-Mecum"
* Robert Craggs Nugent - "An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole" (attrib.)
** - "An Ode on Mr. Pulteney"
** - "An Ode, to His Royal Highness on His Birthday"
** - "Odes and Epistles"
* John Oldmixon - "The History of England During the Reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Queen Mary. Queen Elizabeth"
* Laetitia Pilkington - "The Statues"
* Samuel Richardson - "Aesop's Fables"
* Elizabeth Rowe - "Miscellaneous Works"
* Thomas Sheridan - "The Satires of Juvenal Translated"
* Jonathan Swift - "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"
* Joseph Trapp - "The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger, of Being Righteous Over-much" (against George Whitefield)
* Voltaire - "De la gloire, ou entretien avec un Chinois"
** - "Conseils a M. Helvetius"
* Isaac Watts - "The World to Come"
* John Wesley - "Hymns and Sacred Poems"
* George Whitefield - "A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal"
* Paul Whitehead - "Manners"

Newly published drama

* Daniel Bellamy - "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse"
* Henry Carey - "Nancy" (opera)
* Thomas Cooke - "The Mournful Nuptials" (not acted)
* David Mallet - "Mustapha"
* James Miller - "An Hospital for Fools"
* Edward Phillips - "Britons, Strike Home"
* William Shirley - "The Parricide"
* James Thomson - "Edward and Eleonara"

Births

* November 20 - Jean-François de la Harpe, French critic (died 1803)
*"date unknown"
**Johann Augustus Eberhard, theologian and philosopher (died 1809)
**Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (died 1777)

Deaths

*June 20 - Edmond Martène, historian (born 1654)
*July 25 - Johann Christoph Wolf, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer (born 1683)
*October 18 - António José da Silva, dramatist (born 1705)
*"date unknown"
**George Lillo, dramatist


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