1734 in literature
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This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1734.
Events
- January â Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched; it is discontinued in April.[1]
- June 10 â Copies of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (Letters on the English) are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.[2]
- November â George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin[3] with a corrected text.
- Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
- Göttingen State and University Library is established.
New books
Fiction
- Pierre de Marivaux â Le Paysan parvenu (The Fortunate Peasant) part one
Drama
- Henry Carey, as "Benjamin Bounce" â Chrononhotonthologos (satire on bombastic tragedy)
- William Duncombe â Junius Brutus
- Henry Fielding
- Don Quixote in England
- The Intriguing Chambermaid
- Carlo Goldoni â Belisario
- John Hewitt â Fatal Falsehood
- James Miller â The Mother-in-Law (adapted from Molière's Le Malade imaginaire and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac)
- William Popple â The Lady's Revenge
- James Ralph â The Cornish Squire
- António José da Silva â Esopaida
- James Thomson â The Tragedy of Sophonisba
Poetry
- Jean Adam â Miscellany Poems
- Mary Barber â Poems
- Stephen Duck â Truth and Falsehood
- William Dunkin
- The Lover's Web
- The Poet's Prayer
- 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 Swift â A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
Non-fiction
- Anonymous â A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 1733 On Poetry)
- Joseph Addison (died 1719) â A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning
- John Arbuthnot â Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself
- Francis Atterbury â Sermons
- George Berkeley â The Analyst
- Henry Brooke â Design and Beauty: an Epistle
- Isaac Hawkins Browne â On Design and Beauty
- Dimitrie Cantemir â History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire (first publication)
- Robert Dodsley â An Epistle to Mr. Pope
- John Jortin â Remarks on Spenser's Poems
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu â The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room (on Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room")
- Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz â Mémoires
- Jonathan Richardson â Explanatory Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost
- George Sale â The Koran
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- First Principles of Natural Things
- Opera philosophica et mineralia
- The Infinite and the Final Cause of Creation
- Joseph Trapp â Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things ("Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell")
- Voltaire â Lettres anglaises
Births
- January 10 â Fleury Mesplet, French-born Canadian writer and newspaper publisher (died 1794
- July 25 â Ueda Akinari, Japanese poet and novelist (died 1809)
- October 23 â Nicolas-Edme Rétif, French novelist (died 1806)
- December 31 â Claude Joseph Dorat (Le Chevalier Dorat), French writer (died 1780)
- Unknown dates
- Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish writer (died 1800)
- Robert Aitken, Scottish-born American printer and publisher (died 1802)
Deaths
- January 6 â John Dennis, English dramatist and critic (born 1658)
- February 24 â Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, French writer of fairy tales and salonnière (born 1664)[4]
- March 1 â Roger North, English biographer and lawyer (born 1653)
- April 25 â Johann Konrad Dippel, German theologian (born 1673)
- May â Richard Cantillon, Irish-born French economist (born 1680)
- September 17 â Thomas Fuller, English man of letters and proverb collector (born 1654)
- October â Thomas Lloyd, Welsh lexicographer (born c. 1673)
- October 18 â James Moore Smythe, English dramatist and fop (born 1702)[5]