Overview of the events of 1732 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
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
- Heyat Mahmud, Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali language, Bengal Subah
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February – Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet and satirist
- February 21 – William Falconer (lost at sea c. 1770), Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " 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
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
Notes
- ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 38, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
- Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto