1732 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1732.
Events
[edit]- April – The London Magazine is founded in opposition to the pro-Tory Gentlemen's Magazine.[1]
- December 7 – 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 – 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 – The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin, is published in America.
- unknown date – Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed.[3]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- George Berkeley – Alciphron
- Johann Jakob Bodmer – translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost into German prose
- Elizabeth Boyd – The Happy-Unfortunate
- Mary Davys – The False Friend (fiction)
- Philip Doddridge – Sermons on the Religious Education of Children
- Robert Dodsley – A Muse in Livery
- George Granville, Lord Lansdowne – The Genuine Works
- Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Sultanes de Guzarate, contes mogols (Mogul Tales; or, the Dreams of Men Awake)
- John Horsley – Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain
- William King – The Toast
- Alain-René Lesage – 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 – The Progress of Love
- Daniel Neal – The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists
- Richard Savage – An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
- Philip Skippon – An Account of a Journey Made Thro ̓ 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 – A Short View of the Whole Scripture History
- Leonard Welsted – Of Dulness and Scandal (answer to The Dunciad)
- Gilbert West – Stowe
- Martín Sarmiento – Demostración apologética
Drama
[edit]- Henry Carey
- Amelia (opera)
- The Disappointment
- Terminta
- Henry Fielding
- John Gay (with Alexander Pope) – Acis and Galatea (opera by Handel)
- Charles Johnson – Caelia
- John Kelly – The Married Philosopher
- Pierre de Marivaux – The Triumph of Love (Le Triomphe de l'amour)
- James Miller – The Modish Couple
- Voltaire – Zaïre
Poetry
[edit]- Heyat Mahmud – Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali[5]
- John Milton – Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
Births
[edit]- January 6 – Matija Antun Relković, Croatian grammarian and poet (died 1798)
- January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)[6]
- February – Charles Churchill, English satirist and poet (died 1764)
- February 19 – Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (died 1811)
- April – George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (died 1794)
- August 24 – Peter Ernst Wilde, German physician, journalist and printer (died 1785)
- September 29 – Samuel Musgrave, English classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
Deaths
[edit]- February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (born 1640)[7]
- February 22 – Bishop Francis Atterbury, English politician and writer (born 1663)
- March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German poet and lexicographer (born 1681)[8]
- March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker, English dramatist and poet (born 1652)
- May 9 – Samuel Palmer, English printer (year of birth unknown)
- July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1674)[9]
- December 2 – Constantia Grierson, Irish poet and classical scholar (born c. 1705)
- December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)[10]
- December 22 – Joseph Thurston, English poet (born 1704)[11]
References
[edit]- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review. Bradbury, Evans. 1857. p. 6.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Library Association (1961). The Library Association Record. Library Association. p. 45-46.
- ^ "Biography – CHEVALIER, Beauchêne, ROBERT – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Morton, Brian (2003). Beaumarchais and the American Revolution. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books. p. 1. ISBN 9780739104682.
- ^ Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward; William Leist ReadwinCates (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. p. 426.
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia. Appleton. 1910. p. 131.
- ^ Harte, Liam (2009). The literature of the Irish in Britain : autobiography and memoir, 1725-2001. Basingstoke England New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 1. ISBN 9780230234017.
- ^ Brant, Clare (2007). Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780199280490.
- ^ Fragmenta Genealogica: Volume 8. Heritage Books. December 1996. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-7884-0578-5.