1729 in literature
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The year 1729 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Charles Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697) is translated into English for the first time, by Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, including such favourite fairy tales as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots.
- The Derge Sutra Printing Temple, one of the most important cultural, social, religious and historical institutions in Tibet is founded by Dongba Tseren.
New books
- Eliza Haywood (attributed) - The Fair Hebrew
- James Bramston - The Art of Politics
- Moses Browne - Piscatory Eclogues
- Henry Carey - Poems on Several Occasions
- Edward Cooke - Battel of the Poets
- Thomas Cooke - Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables
- William Hatchett - The Adventures of Abdalla (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Bignon first published in Paris, 1712, as Les Avantures d'Abdalla)
- Eliza Haywood - The Fair Hebrew; or, A True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies
- Thomas Innes - Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain
- Soame Jenyns - The Art of Dancing
- William Law - A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (extremely popular devotional manual)
- Daniel Mace - The New Testament in Greek and English (a diaglot)
- Isaac Newton - The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (translation into English of Newton's Latin work)
- John Oldmixon - The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart
- Alexander Pope - The Dunciad, Variorum
- William Pulteney - The Honest Jury
- James Ralph - Clarinda
- Elizabeth Rowe - Letters on Various Occasions
- Richard Savage - The Wanderer
- Thomas Sherlock - The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus
- Jonathan Swift
- An Epistle Upon an Epistle From a Certain Doctor to a Certain Great Lord
- A Modest Proposal
- William Wycherley - The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley ii. (see 1728)
Newly published drama
- Colley Cibber - Love in a Riddle
- Charles Coffey - The Beggar's Wedding
- John Gay - Polly (sequel to The Beggar's Opera, banned from performance by Walpole)
- Eliza Haywood - Frederick
- Charles Johnson - The Village Opera (opera)
- Samuel Johnson of Cheshire - Hurlothrumbo, or The Supernatural
- Thomas Odell
- The Patron
- The Smugglers
- Thomas Southerne - Money the Mistress
- James Thomson - Britannia
Births
- January 12 - Edmund Burke (died 1797)
- January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (died 1781)
- April 13 - Bishop Thomas Percy, literary critic (died 1811)
- August 11 - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun (died 1807)
- September 25 - Christian Gottlob Heyne (died 1812)
- September 29 - John Duncombe, poet (died 1786)
- date unknown - Clara Reeve, novelist (died 1807)
Deaths
- January 19 - William Congreve, dramatist (born 1670)
- May 17 - Samuel Clarke, philosopher (born 1675)
- September 1 - Richard Steele, journalist, satirist and dramatist (born 1672)
- October 9 - Sir Richard Blackmore, poet and religious writer (born 1654)
- November 16 - Abel Boyer, lexicographer, journalist and miscellaneous writer (born c.1667)
- December 13 - Anthony Collins, philosopher (born 1676)
- unknown date - Gershom Carmichael, philosopher (born c.1672)
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