1734 in literature

This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1734.

Events

• January – Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched; it is discontinued in April.
• June 10 – Copies of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (Letters on the English) are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
• November – George Faulkner begins publication of an edition of Jonathan Swift's Works in Dublin with a corrected text.
• Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
• Göttingen State and University Library is established.

New books

Fiction

• Pierre de Marivaux – Le Paysan parvenu (The Fortunate Peasant) part one

Drama

• Henry Carey, as "Benjamin Bounce" – Chrononhotonthologos (satire on bombastic tragedy)
• William Duncombe – Junius Brutus
• Henry Fielding
• Don Quixote in England
• The Intriguing Chambermaid
• Carlo Goldoni – Belisario
• John Hewitt – Fatal Falsehood
• James Miller – The Mother-in-Law (adapted from Molières Le Malade imaginaire and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac)
• William Popple – The Lady's Revenge
• James Ralph – The Cornish Squire
• António José da Silva – Esopaida
• James Thomson – The Tragedy of Sophonisba