1732 in literature
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The year 1732 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed.
- December 7 - The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern-day Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich with a production of William Congreve's The Way of the World.[1]
- December 13 - The first issue of Then Swänska Argus, by Olof von Dalin, is published in Sweden, introducing the "younger new Swedish" (yngre nysvenska) literary language.
- December 28 - The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, by Benjamin Franklin, is published in America.
New books
- Anonymous
- Castle-Howard
- The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing Room (reply to Swift)
- A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose . . . on Occasion of the Dunciad
- Corporate authorship - the London Magazine (periodical)
- George Berkeley - Alciphron
- Johann Jakob Bodmer - translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost into 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
- John Horsley - Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain
- William King - The Toast
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - The Progress of Love
- John Milton - Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
- Daniel Neal - The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists
- Richard Savage - An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
- 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
Newly printed plays
- Henry Carey
- Amelia (opera)
- The Disappointment
- Terminta
- Henry Fielding
- The Lottery
- The Modern Husband
- The Covent-Garden Tragedy
- The Old Debauchees
- The Mock Doctor (performed)
- John Gay (with Alexander Pope) - Acis and Galatea (opera by Handel)
- John Kelly - The Married Philosopher
Births
- January 6 – Matija Antun Relković, Croatian grammarian and poet (died 1798)
- January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
- February 19 – Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (died 1811)
- April – George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (died 1794)
- September 29 – Samuel Musgrave, English classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
Deaths
- February 22 – Bishop Francis Atterbury, English politician and writer (born 1663)
- March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German poet and lexicographer (born 1681)
- December 2 – Constantia Grierson, Irish poet and classical scholar (born c. 1705)
- December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)
- Unknown dates
- Jane Barker, English dramatist and poet (born 1652)
- Mary Davys, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1674)
- Samuel Palmer, English printer (year of birth unknown)