1732 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Non-fiction 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• First appearance of Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin

[edit] New books

• Johann Jakob Bodmer - translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost into German prose
• Jonathan Swift - The Lady's Dressing Room

[edit] Non-fiction

• John Horsley - Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain

[edit] Births

• January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
• February 19 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist) (died 1811)
• September 29 - Samuel Musgrave, classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
• unknown date - George Colman the Elder (died 1794)

[edit] Deaths

• February 22 - Francis Atterbury (born 1663)
• March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, poet and lexicographer (born 1681)
• December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)