1732 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

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 "[year] 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 "[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

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

• [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto