This article covers 1732 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
- 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"
- 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
Births
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Deaths
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See also
Notes