1731 in literature
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The year 1731 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- The Gentleman's Magazine is launched by Edward Cave
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - The Life of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell
- Corporate authorship - The Gentleman's Magazine
- Nicholas Amhurst as "Caleb D'Anvers" - A Collection of Poems
- Thomas Bayes - Divine Benevolence
- Samuel Boyse - Translations and Poems Written on Several Subjects
- Ralph Cudworth - A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (posth.)
- Robert Dodsley - An Epistle from a Footman in London to the Celebrated Stephen Duck
- - A Sketch of the Miseries of Poverty
- Henry Fielding - The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb
- Aaron Hill - Advice to the Poets
- William King - An Essay on the Origin of Evil (transl. from Latin)
- William Law - The Case of Reason
- William Oldys - A Dissertation Upon Pamphlets
- Alexander Pope - An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington ("Epistle to Burlington," and known to contemporaries as "Of False Taste")
- Elizabeth Rowe - Letters Moral and Entertaining
- Joseph Trapp - The Works of Virgil
[edit] New drama
- Matthew Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge - The Jovial Crew (opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew)
- Theophilus Cibber - The Lover
- Charles Coffey & John Mottley - The Devil to Pay (musical adaptation of the play by Thomas Jevon)
- Thomas Cooke - The Triumphs of Love and Honour
- Henry Fielding - The Letter-Writers
- Philip Frowde - Philotas
- Aaron Hill - Athelwold
- Charles Johnson - The Tragedy of Medea
- George Lillo - The London Merchant
- - George Barnwell
- David Mallet - Eurydice
- Joseph Mitchell - The Highland Fair
- James Ralph - The Fall of the Earl of Essex
[edit] Births
- November 26 - William Cowper, poet (died 1800)
- December 12 - Erasmus Darwin, naturalist (died 1802)
[edit] Deaths
- April 21 - Daniel Defoe (born c.1660)
- December 26 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, dramatist (born 1672)
- Mary Astell, English feminist
- Penelope Aubin, dramatist
- Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, Jacobite leader and author
- Ned Ward, wit and essayist
