Editing 1732 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1732'''.

==Events==
*April – ''[[The London Magazine]]'' is founded in opposition to the pro-[[Tories (British political party)|Tory]] ''[[Gentlemen's Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bLPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6|year=1857|publisher=Bradbury, Evans|pages=6}}</ref>
*[[December 7]] – The original Theatre Royal, [[Covent Garden]], London (predecessor of the [[Royal Opera House]]) is opened by [[John Rich (producer)|John Rich]] with a  revival of [[William Congreve]]'s ''[[The Way of the World]]''.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{Cite book |title=Penguin Pocket On This Day |publisher=Penguin Reference Library |isbn=0-14-102715-0 |year=2006}}</ref>
*[[December 13]] – The first issue of ''[[Then Swänska Argus]]'', by [[Olof von Dalin]], is published in [[Sweden]], introducing the "younger new [[Swedish language|Swedish]]" (''yngre nysvenska'') literary language.
*[[December 28]] – The first edition of ''[[Poor Richard's Almanack]]'', by [[Benjamin Franklin]], is published in [[British America|America]].
*''unknown date'' – [[Trinity College Library]] in [[Dublin]], designed by [[Thomas Burgh (1670–1730)|Thomas Burgh]], is completed.<ref>{{cite book|author=Library Association|title=The Library Association Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VI4aAAAAMAAJ|year=1961|publisher=Library Association|page=45-46}}</ref>

==New books==
===Prose===
*[[George Berkeley]] – ''[[Alciphron (book)|Alciphron]]''
*[[Johann Jakob Bodmer]] – translation of [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' into [[German language|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 (archaeologist)|John Horsley]] – ''Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain''
*[[William King (poet)|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)''<ref name="DCB">{{Cite web |title=Biography – CHEVALIER, Beauchêne, ROBERT – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chevalier_robert_2E.html |website=www.biographi.ca |accessdate=8 March 2019}}</ref>
*[[George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton]] – ''The Progress of Love''
*[[Daniel Neal]] – ''The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists''
*[[Richard Savage (poet)|Richard Savage]] – ''An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir [[Robert Walpole]]''
*[[Philip Skippon (1641–1691)|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===

*[[Henry Carey (writer)|Henry Carey]]
**''Amelia'' (opera)
**''The Disappointment''
**''Terminta''
*[[Henry Fielding]]
**''[[The Lottery (play)|The Lottery]]''
**''[[The Modern Husband]]''
**''[[The Covent-Garden Tragedy]]''
**''[[The Old Debauchees]]''
**''[[The Mock Doctor]]'' (performed)
*[[John Gay]] (with [[Alexander Pope]]) – ''[[Acis and Galatea (Handel)|Acis and Galatea]]'' (opera by [[Handel]])
*[[Charles Johnson (writer)|Charles Johnson]] – ''[[Caelia (play)|Caelia]]''
* John Kelly – ''[[The Married Philosopher]]''
*[[Pierre de Marivaux]] – ''[[The Triumph of Love (play)|The Triumph of Love]] (Le Triomphe de l'amour)''
* [[James Miller (playwright)|James Miller]] – ''[[The Modish Couple]]''
*[[Voltaire]] – ''[[Zaïre (play)|Zaïre]]''

===Poetry===
{{main article|1732 in poetry}}
*[[Heyat Mahmud]] – ''Sarbabhedbāṇī''; [[Bengali poetry|Bengali]]<ref name=bpedia>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Heyat Mamud|author=[[Wakil Ahmed]]}}</ref>
*[[John Milton]] – ''Milton's Paradise Lost'', edited by [[Richard Bentley]]

==Births==
*[[January 6]] – [[Matija Antun Relković]], Croatian grammarian and poet (died [[1798 in literature|1798]])
*[[January 24]] – [[Pierre de Beaumarchais]], French writer (died [[1799 in literature|1799]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Morton | first = Brian | title = Beaumarchais and the American Revolution | publisher = Lexington Books | location = Lanham, Md | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780739104682 |page=1}}</ref>
*February – [[Charles Churchill (satirist)|Charles Churchill]], English satirist and poet (died [[1764 in literature|1764]])
*[[February 19]] – [[Richard Cumberland (dramatist)|Richard Cumberland]], English dramatist (died [[1811 in literature|1811]])
*April – [[George Colman the Elder]], English dramatist and essayist (died [[1794 in literature|1794]])
*[[August 24]] – [[Peter Ernst Wilde]], German physician, journalist and printer (died [[1785 in literature|1785]])
*[[September 29]] – [[Samuel Musgrave]], English classical scholar and pamphleteer (died [[1780 in literature|1780]])

==Deaths==
*[[February 13]] – [[Charles-René d'Hozier]], French historian (born [[1640 in literature|1640]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward|author2=William Leist ReadwinCates|title=Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical|publisher=Lee and Shepard|year=1872|page=426}}</ref>
*[[February 22]] – Bishop [[Francis Atterbury]], English politician and writer (born [[1663 in literature|1663]])
*[[March 20]] – [[Johann Ernst Hanxleden]], German poet and lexicographer (born [[1681 in literature|1681]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher=Appleton|year=1910|page=131}}</ref>
*[[March 29]] ''(buried)'' – [[Jane Barker]], English dramatist and poet (born [[1652 in literature|1652]])
*[[May 9]] – [[Samuel Palmer (printer)|Samuel Palmer]], English printer (year of birth unknown)
*[[July 3]] ''(buried)'' – [[Mary Davys]], Irish poet and dramatist (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Harte | first = Liam | title = The literature of the Irish in Britain : autobiography and memoir, 1725-2001 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = Basingstoke England New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780230234017 | page=1}}</ref>
*[[December 2]] – [[Constantia Grierson]], Irish poet and classical scholar (born c. 1705)
*[[December 4]] – [[John Gay]], English poet and dramatist (born [[1685 in literature|1685]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Brant | first = Clare | title = Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780199280490 |page=10}}</ref>
*[[December 22]] – [[Joseph Thurston (poet)|Joseph Thurston]], English poet (born [[1704 in literature|1704]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Fragmenta Genealogica: Volume 8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiqdSpQaF3QC&pg=PA69|date=December 1996|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-0578-5|pages=69}}</ref>

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