1729 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1729.

Events

November 28 – The English theologian Thomas Woolston is convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to prison for the remaining four years of his life on account of his published Discourses on Biblical literalism.
unknown date – Charles Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697) is translated into English for the first time, by Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose. It includes such favourite fairy tales as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots.^[1]

New books

Prose

James Bramston – The Art of Politics
Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions
Edward Cooke – Battel of the Poets
Thomas Cooke – Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables
Daniel Defoe as Andrew Moreton, Esq. – Second Thoughts are Best: or, a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
Robert Drury – Madagascar, or Robert Drury's Journal
William Hatchett – The Adventures of Abdalla (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Bignon first published in Paris, 1712, as Les Avantures d'Abdalla)
Eliza Haywood – The Fair Hebrew; or, A True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies
Thomas Innes – Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain
Soame Jenyns – The Art of Dancing
William Law – A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (extremely popular devotional manual)
Daniel Mace – The New Testament in Greek and English (a diaglot)
Isaac Newton – The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (English translation of Newton's Latin work)
John Oldmixon – The History of England, during the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart
William Pulteney – The Honest Jury
James Ralph – Clarinda
Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Letters on Various Occasions
Richard Savage – The Wanderer
Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus
Jonathan Swift
- An Epistle Upon an Epistle From a Certain Doctor to a Certain Great Lord
- A Modest Proposal
William Wycherley – The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley ii. (see 1728)
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Ilustración apologética

Children

Robert Samber – Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose^[1]

Drama

Colley Cibber – Love in a Riddle
Charles Coffey – The Beggar's Wedding
John Gay – Polly (sequel to The Beggar's Opera, banned from performance by Walpole)
Eliza Haywood – Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh
Charles Johnson – The Village Opera (opera)
Samuel Johnson – Hurlothrumbo, or The Supernatural
Samuel Madden – Themistocles
Thomas Odell
- The Patron
- The Smuglers
James Thomson – Britannia

Poetry

Moses Browne – Piscatory Eclogues
Alexander Pope – The Dunciad, Variorum

Births

January 12 – Edmund Burke, Irish political writer and politician (died 1797)
January 22 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer, dramatist and critic (died 1781)
January 23 – Clara Reeve, English novelist (died 1807)^[2]
April 13 – Thomas Percy, English poet, translator and bishop (died 1811)
August 11 – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, French poet (died 1807)
September 6 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher of the Haskalah or Jewish enlightenment (died 1786)
September 25 – Christian Gottlob Heyne German classicist and archaeologist (died 1812)
September 29 – John Duncombe, English poet, antiquary and cleric (died 1786)
Unknown date – Thomas Hawkins, English literary editor and cleric (died 1772)

Deaths

January 19 – William Congreve, English dramatist and poet (born 1670)^[3]
May 17 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (born 1675)^[4]
September 1 – Richard Steele, Irish journalist, satirist and dramatist (born 1672)
October 9 – Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and religious writer (born 1654)
November 16 – Abel Boyer, French-born lexicographer, journalist and miscellanist (born c. 1667)
December 13 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (born 1676)
Unknown date – Gershom Carmichael, Scottish philosopher (born c. 1672)^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Mary V. Jackson (1989). Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839. University of Nebraska Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-8032-2572-5.
^ "Reeve, Clara (1729–1807), novelist and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23292. Retrieved 2018-08-23. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "William Congreve | English dramatist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
^ Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II. Trustees of the British Museum. 1911. p. 2.
^ Istvan Hont; Michael Ignatieff (30 January 1986). Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-316-58318-0.

[Jackson1989-1] Mary V. Jackson (1989). Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839. University of Nebraska Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-8032-2572-5.

[2] "Reeve, Clara (1729–1807), novelist and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23292. Retrieved 2018-08-23. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[3] "William Congreve | English dramatist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 August 2018.

[4] Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II. Trustees of the British Museum. 1911. p. 2.

[5] Istvan Hont; Michael Ignatieff (30 January 1986). Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-316-58318-0.

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