1732 in poetry
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Works published
Colonial America
- Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"):
- Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry[1]
- Richard Lewis:
United Kingdom
- Anonymous, Castle-Howard, has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin[3]
- Anonymous, Collection of Pieces[4]
- Anonymous, The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing-Room, "By Miss W----" (a reply to Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room, also published this year)[3]
- Robert Dodsley, A Muse on Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany[3]
- John Gay,Acis and Galatea: An English pastoral opera,[3] Gay wrote the libretto for Handel's music
- George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose[3]
- William King, The Toast: An epic poem, although the book claimed to be a translation from the Latin of "Frederick Scheffer", it was an original work by King[3]
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, published anonymously[3]
- John Milton, Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley[3]
- Richard Savage:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole[3]
- Editor, A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose [...] Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets[3]
- Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, published anonymously[3]
- Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope and others, Miscellanies: The Third Volume, in fact, it was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735)[3]
- Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal[3]
- Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published[3]
Other
- Albrecht Haller, Attempt at Swiss Poems, German language, Switzerland[5]
- Heyat Mahmud, SarbabhedbÄá¹Ä«; Bengali language, Bengal Subah[6]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February â Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet and satirist
- February 21 â William Falconer (lost at sea c. 1770), Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 20 â Johann Ernst Hanxleden (born 1681), German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
- March 29 (buried) â Jane Barker (born 1652), English-born poet and playwright
- July 3 (buried) â Mary Davys (born 1674), Irish poet and playwright
- December 4 â John Gay (born 1685), English poet and playwright
- Also â Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; born c. 1665), English Colonial American poet[1]
