1734 in literature

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The year 1734 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

November - George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin^[1] with a corrected text.
Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
Copies of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched.

Henry Carey, as "Benjamin Bounce"
- Chrononhotonthologos
- The Dragon of Wantley (burlesque)
Henry Fielding
- Don Quixote in England
- The Intriguing Chambermaid
Carlo Goldoni - Belisario
James Miller - The Mother-in-Law (adapted from Molière's Le Malade imaginaire and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac)
James Ralph - The Cornish Squire
António José da Silva - Esopaida
James Thomson - The Tragedy of Sophonisba

Mary Barber - Poems
Stephen Duck - Truth and Falsehood
William Dunkin
- The Lover's Web
- The Poet's Prayer
- Alexander Pope (anonymous) - An Essay on Man (complete with 4th epistle)
See also 1734 in poetry

Anonymous - A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 1733 On Poetry)
Jean Adam - Miscellany Poems
Joseph Addison - A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning (posth.)
John Arbuthnot - Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself
Francis Atterbury - Sermons
George Berkeley - The Analyst
Henry Brooke - Design and Beauty: an Epistle
Isaac Hawkins Browne - On Design and Beauty
Dimitrie Cantemir - History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire (1734 is the date of the first publishing, as the book had been circulating in manuscript)
Robert Dodsley - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
John Jortin - Remarks on Spenser's Poems
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room (on Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room")
Alexander Pope
- Essay on Man
- An Epistle to Lord Cobham ("Moral Epistle I")
- The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- Sober Advice from Horace
Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz - Mémoires
Jonathan Richardson - Explanatory Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost
George Sale - The Koran
Emanuel Swedenborg
- First Principles of Natural Things
- Opera philosophica et mineralia
- The Infinite and the Final Cause of Creation
Joseph Trapp - Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things ("Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell")
Voltaire - Lettres anglaises

January 10 - Fleury Mesplet, printer (died 1794
July 25 - Ueda Akinari, Japanese poet and novelist (died 1809)
October 23 - Nicolas-Edme Rétif, novelist (died 1806)
December 31 - Claude Joseph Dorat, "Le Chevalier Dorat" (died 1780)
date unknown
- Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish writer (died 1800)
- Robert Aitken, printer and publisher (died 1802)

↑ Moody, T. W. et al., ed. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.

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