1734 in literature
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The year 1734 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali languageBengali languageBengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
. - Copies of VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
'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 MarivauxPierre de MarivauxPierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux , commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist....
, is unsuccessfully launched.
New books
- Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed - Robert Tatersal - The Bricklayer's Miscellany
New drama
- Henry CareyHenry Carey (writer)Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death...
, as "Benjamin Bounce"- ChrononhotonthologosChrononhotonthologosChrononhotonthologos is a satirical play by the English poet and songwriter Henry Carey from 1734. Although the play has been seen as nonsense verse, it was also seen and celebrated at the time as a satire on Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline, wife of George II.The play is relatively short on the...
- The Dragon of Wantley (burlesque)
- Chrononhotonthologos
- Henry FieldingHenry FieldingHenry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones....
- Don Quixote in England
- The Intriguing Chambermaid
- Carlo GoldoniCarlo GoldoniCarlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
- Belisario - James Miller - The Mother-in-Law (adapted from Molières Le Malade imaginaireLe Malade imaginaireThe Imaginary Invalid is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière collapsed during his fourth performance as Argan on 17 February and died soon after...
and Monsieur de PourceaugnacMonsieur de PourceaugnacMonsieur de Pourceaugnac is a 1985 French drama film directed by Michel Mitrani that is based on the 1669 play of the same name by Molière. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...
) - James Ralph - The Cornish Squire
- António José da SilvaAntónio José da SilvaAntónio José da Silva was a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew" . The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio.-Life:...
- Esopaida - James Thomson - The Tragedy of Sophonisba
Poetry
- Mary BarberMary BarberMary Barber , poet, was a member of Swift's circle.- Life :Barber's parents are unknown; she married Rupert Barber , a Dublin woollen draper, and had nine children, four of whom survived to adulthood...
- Poems - Stephen DuckStephen DuckStephen Duck was an English poet whose career reflected both the Augustan era's interest in "naturals" and its resistance to classlessness....
- Truth and Falsehood - William DunkinWilliam DunkinWilliam Dunkin, D.D. , was an Irish poet.-Life:William Dunkin was born in Dublin in around 1709. His parents died when he was young and he was left in early life to the charge of Trinity College, Dublin, by an aunt who left her property to the college with the condition that it should provide for...
- The Lover's Web
- The Poet's Prayer
- See also 1734 in poetry1734 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Anonymous, A Rap at the Rhapsody * Jean Adam, Miscellany Poems...
Non-fiction
- Anonymous - A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 17331733 in literatureThe year 1733 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Antoine François Prévost arrives in London, where he will edit Le Pour et centre....
On Poetry) - Jean AdamJean AdamJean Adam was a Scottish poet.-Early years:Born in Greenock into a maritime family, her most famous work is "There's Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose," a tale of a sailor's wife and the safe return of her husband from the sea...
- Miscellany Poems - Joseph AddisonJoseph AddisonJoseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
- A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning (posth.) - John ArbuthnotJohn ArbuthnotJohn Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, , was a physician, satirist and polymath in London...
- Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself - Francis AtterburyFrancis AtterburyFrancis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop.-Early life:He was born at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a tutor...
- Sermons - George BerkeleyGeorge BerkeleyGeorge Berkeley , also known as Bishop Berkeley , was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"...
- The AnalystThe AnalystThe Analyst, subtitled "A DISCOURSE Addressed to an Infidel MATHEMATICIAN. WHEREIN It is examined whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith", is a book published by... - Henry Brooke - Design and Beauty: an Epistle
- Isaac Hawkins BrowneIsaac Hawkins Browne (poet)Isaac Hawkins Browne is remembered as the author of some clever imitations of contemporary poets on the theme of A Pipe of Tobacco, somewhat analogous to the Rejected Addresses of a later day...
- On Design and Beauty - Dimitrie CantemirDimitrie CantemirDimitrie Cantemir was twice Prince of Moldavia . He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer....
- 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 DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
- An Epistle to Mr. Pope - John JortinJohn Jortin-Life:Jortin was the son of Renatus Jordain, a French Huguenot refugee and government official, and Martha Rogers, daughter of Daniel Rogers. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1721. He was Rede lecturer at Cambridge in 1724, and Boyle lecturer in 1749...
- 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 PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
- 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 SaleGeorge SaleGeorge Sale was an Orientalist and practising solicitor, best known for his 1734 translation of the Qur'an into English. He was also author of The General Dictionary, in ten volumes, folio....
- The Koran - Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborgwas a Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian. He has been termed a Christian mystic by some sources, including the Encyclopædia Britannica online version, and the Encyclopedia of Religion , which starts its article with the description that he was a "Swedish scientist and mystic." Others...
- Opera philosophica et mineralia - Joseph TrappJoseph TrappJoseph Trapp was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer. His production as a younger man of occasional verse and dramas led to his appointment as the first Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1708. Later his High Church opinions established him in preferment and position...
- Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things ("Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell") - VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
- Lettres anglaisesLetters on the EnglishLettres philosophiques or ) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1722 and 1734. It was published in both French and English in 1734...
Births
- January 10 - Fleury MespletFleury MespletFleury Mesplet was a French-born Canadian printer.Born in Marseille and apprenticed in Lyon, he emigrated to London in 1773 where he set up shop in Covent Garden. In 1774 he emigrated to Philadelphia; it is thought that he may have been persuaded to do so by Benjamin Franklin...
, printer (died 1794 - July 25 - Ueda AkinariUeda AkinariUeda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th century Japan...
, Japanese poet and novelist (died 1809) - October 23 - Nicolas-Edme RétifNicolas-Edme RétifNicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif , also known as Rétif de la Bretonne, was a French novelist. The term retifisme for shoe fetishism was named after him.-Biography:...
, novelist (died 1806) - December 31 - Claude Joseph DoratClaude Joseph DoratClaude Joseph Dorat was a French writer, also known as Le Chevalier Dorat.He was born in Paris, of a family consisting of generations of lawyers, and he joined the corps of the kings musketeers...
, "Le Chevalier Dorat" (died 1780) - date unknown
- Catharina AhlgrenCatharina AhlgrenCatharina Ahlgren was a Swedish feminist writer, poet, translator, managing editor, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden. She is also known for her correspondance with Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht. Ahlgren was a leading person in the "Female literary world of the 1750-...
, Swedish writer (died 1800) - Robert Aitken, printer and publisher (died 18021802 in literatureThe year 1802 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* 4 October - William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson....
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- Catharina Ahlgren
Deaths
- January 6 - John Dennis, dramatist (born 1657)
- February 24 - Marie-Jeanne LhéritierMarie-Jeanne LhéritierMarie-Jeanne Lhéritier was an aristocratic French writer of the late 17th century, and a niece of Charles Perrault....
, writer of fairy tales (born 1664) - March 1 - Roger North (17th century)Roger North (17th century)Roger North, KC , English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician, was the sixth son of t he fourth Baron North....
, biographer (born 1653) - April 25 - Johann Conrad DippelJohann Conrad DippelJohann Konrad Dippel was a German pietist theologian, alchemist and physician.-Life:He was born at Castle Frankenstein near Mühltal and Darmstadt, and therefore once the addendum Franckensteinensis and once the addendum Franckensteina-Strataemontanus was used.He studied theology, philosophy and...
, theologian (born 16731673 in literatureThe year 1673 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*With the death of Sir Henry Herbert, Thomas Killigrew is appointed Master of the Revels...
) - September 17 - Thomas Fuller, collector of proverbs (born 16541654 in literatureThe year 1654 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*Lady Dorothy Osborne plays the lead role in a country-house staging of Sir William Berkeley's tragicomedy The Lost Lady. While the London theatres remain closed, amateur theatricals continue at private houses in England...
) - October - Thomas LloydThomas Lloyd (lexicographer)Thomas Lloyd was a Welsh cleric and lexicographer. He was the son of Thomas Lloyd, a lawyer from Wrexham and part of the Lloyd family of Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshire. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 25 February 1689 at the age of 15. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts...
, lexicographer (born c.1673) - date unknown
- Richard CantillonRichard CantillonRichard Cantillon was an Irish-French economist and author of Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général , a book considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy". Although little information exists on Cantillon's life, it is known that he became a successful banker and...
, economic theorist (born 1680) - James Moore SmytheJames Moore SmytheJames Moore Smythe was an English playwright, fop,and wastrel. He was appointed by the King to the Office of, Co-Paymaster of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. He was born James Moore.He was the son of Arthur Moore M.P. , for Great Grimsby, and his 2nd wife Theophila Smythe, dau...
, dramatist (born 1702)
- Richard Cantillon