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1734 in literature

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This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1734.

Contents

Events

  • November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin 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.
  • January – Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched; it is discontinued in April.
  • Göttingen State and University Library established.

    • Prose

  • Robert Tatersal – The Bricklayer's Miscellany

    • Drama

  • Henry Carey, as "Benjamin Bounce"
  • Chrononhotonthologos (satire on bombastic tragedy)
  • 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

    • Poetry

  • Jean Adam – Miscellany Poems
  • 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
  • Jonathan Swift – A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

    • Non-fiction

  • Anonymous – A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 1733 On Poetry)
  • Joseph Addison – A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning (posthumous)
  • 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

    • Births

  • January 10 – Fleury Mesplet, French-born Canadian writer and newspaper publisher (died 1794
  • July 25 – Ueda Akinari, Japanese poet and novelist (died 1809)
  • October 23 – Nicolas-Edme Rétif, French novelist (died 1806)
  • December 31 – Claude Joseph Dorat (Le Chevalier Dorat), French writer (died 1780)
  • Unknown dates
  • Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish writer (died 1800)
  • Robert Aitken, Scottish-born American printer and publisher (died 1802)

    • Deaths

  • January 6 – John Dennis, English dramatist and critic (born 1658)
  • February 24 – Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, French writer of fairy tales and salonnière (born 1664)
  • March 1 – Roger North, English biographer and lawyer (born 1653)
  • April 25 – Johann Conrad Dippel, German theologian (born 1673)
  • May – Richard Cantillon, Irish-born French economist (born 1680)
  • September 17 – Thomas Fuller, English man of letters and proverb collector (born 1654)
  • October – Thomas Lloyd, Welsh lexicographer (born c. 1673)
  • October 18 – James Moore Smythe, English dramatist and fop (born 1702)

    • References

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