1732 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1732.
Events
- April â The London Magazine is founded in opposition to the pro-Tory Gentlemen's Magazine.[1]
- December 7 â The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich with a revival of William Congreve's The Way of the World.[2]
- December 13 â The first issue of Then Swänska Argus, by Olof von Dalin, is published in Sweden, introducing the "younger new Swedish" (yngre nysvenska) literary language.
- December 28 â The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin, is published in America.
- unknown date â Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed.[3]
New books
Prose
- George Berkeley â Alciphron
- Johann Jakob Bodmer â translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost into German prose
- Elizabeth Boyd â The Happy-Unfortunate
- Mary Davys â The False Friend (fiction)
- Philip Doddridge â Sermons on the Religious Education of Children
- Robert Dodsley â A Muse in Livery
- George Granville, Lord Lansdowne â The Genuine Works
- Thomas-Simon Gueullette â Les Sultanes de Guzarate, contes mogols (Mogul Tales; or, the Dreams of Men Awake)
- John Horsley â Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain
- William King â The Toast
- Alain-René Lesage â Les avantures de monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchêne, capitaine de flibustiers dans la Nouvelle-France (The Adventures of Robert Chevalier, Call'd de Beauchene, Captain of a Privateer in New-France)[4]
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton â The Progress of Love
- Daniel Neal â The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists
- Richard Savage â An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
- Philip Skippon â An Account of a Journey Made Thro Ì Part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France
- Jonathan Swift
- The Lady's Dressing Room
- The Grand Question Debated
- (with Pope and others) Miscellanies: The Third Volume
- Isaac Watts â A Short View of the Whole Scripture History
- Leonard Welsted â Of Dulness and Scandal (answer to The Dunciad)
- Gilbert West â Stowe
- MartÃn Sarmiento â Demostración apologética
Drama
- Henry Carey
- Amelia (opera)
- The Disappointment
- Terminta
- Henry Fielding
- John Gay (with Alexander Pope) â Acis and Galatea (opera by Handel)
- Charles Johnson â Caelia
- John Kelly â The Married Philosopher
- Pierre de Marivaux â The Triumph of Love (Le Triomphe de l'amour)
- James Miller â The Modish Couple
- Voltaire â Zaïre
Poetry
- Heyat Mahmud â SarbabhedbÄá¹Ä«; Bengali[5]
- John Milton â Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
Births
- January 6 â Matija Antun RelkoviÄ, Croatian grammarian and poet (died 1798)
- January 24 â Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)[6]
- February â Charles Churchill, English satirist and poet (died 1764)
- February 19 â Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (died 1811)
- April â George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (died 1794)
- August 24 â Peter Ernst Wilde, German physician, journalist and printer (died 1785)
- September 29 â Samuel Musgrave, English classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
Deaths
- February 13 â Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (born 1640)[7]
- February 22 â Bishop Francis Atterbury, English politician and writer (born 1663)
- March 20 â Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German poet and lexicographer (born 1681)[8]
- March 29 (buried) â Jane Barker, English dramatist and poet (born 1652)
- May 9 â Samuel Palmer, English printer (year of birth unknown)
- July 3 (buried) â Mary Davys, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1674)[9]
- December 2 â Constantia Grierson, Irish poet and classical scholar (born c. 1705)
- December 4 â John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)[10]
- December 22 â Joseph Thurston, English poet (born 1704)[11]