This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1732.
Events April – The London Magazine is founded in opposition to the pro-Tory Gentlemen's Magazine. December 7 – The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich with a revival of William Congreve's The Way of the World. 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 Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin, is published in America. unknown date – Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed.
New books Prose 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 Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Sultanes de Guzarate, contes mogols (Mogul Tales; or, the Dreams of Men Awake) John Horsley – Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain William King – The Toast Alain-René Lesage – Les avantures de monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchêne, capitaine de flibustiers dans la Nouvelle-France (The Adventures of Robert Chevalier, Call'd de Beauchene, Captain of a Privateer in New-France) George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – The Progress of Love Daniel Neal – The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists Richard Savage – An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole Philip Skippon – An Account of a Journey Made Thro ̓ Part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France 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
Drama
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) Charles Johnson – Caelia John Kelly – The Married Philosopher Pierre de Marivaux – The Triumph of Love (Le Triomphe de l'amour) James Miller – The Modish Couple Voltaire – Zaïre
Poetry
Heyat Mahmud – Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali John Milton – Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
Births January 6 – Matija Antun Relković, Croatian grammarian and poet (died 1798) January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799) February – Charles Churchill, English satirist and poet (died 1764) February 19 – Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (died 1811) April – George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (died 1794) August 24 – Peter Ernst Wilde, German physician, journalist and printer (died 1785) September 29 – Samuel Musgrave, English classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
Deaths February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (born 1640) February 22 – Bishop Francis Atterbury, English politician and writer (born 1663) March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German poet and lexicographer (born 1681) March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker, English dramatist and poet (born 1652) May 9 – Samuel Palmer, English printer (year of birth unknown) July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1674) December 2 – Constantia Grierson, Irish poet and classical scholar (born c. 1705) December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685) December 22 – Joseph Thurston, English poet (born 1704)
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