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1732 in poetry

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Colonial America

  • Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"):
  • "An Elegy on [. . .] William Lock"
  • "In Memory of [. . .] Benedict Leonard Calvert
  • Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry
  • Richard Lewis:
  • "A Description of Spring"
  • "Carmen Saeculare"
  • attributed, "A Rhapsody"
  • United Kingdom

  • Anonymous, Castle-Howard, has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin
  • Anonymous, Collection of Pieces
  • Anonymous, The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing-Room, "By Miss W----" (a reply to Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room, also published this year)
  • Robert Dodsley, A Muse on Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany
  • John Gay,Acis and Galatea: An English pastoral opera, Gay wrote the libretto for Handel's music
  • George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose
  • William King, The Toast: An epic poem, although the book claimed to be a translation from the Latin of "Frederick Scheffer", it was an original work by King
  • George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, published anonymously
  • John Milton, Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
  • Richard Savage:
  • An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
  • Editor, A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose [...] Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets
  • Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, published anonymously
  • Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope and others, Miscellanies: The Third Volume, in fact, it was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735)
  • Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal
  • Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published
  • Other

  • Albrecht Haller, Attempt at Swiss Poems, German language, Switzerland
  • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • February – Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet and satirist
  • February 21 – William Falconer (died 1769), Scottish poet
  • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden (born 1681), German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
  • March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker (born 1652), English-born poet and playwright
  • July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys (born 1674), Irish poet and playwright
  • December 4 – John Gay (born 1685), English poet and playwright
  • Also – Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; born c. 1665), English Colonial American poet
  • References

    1732 in poetry Wikipedia