1732 in poetry
This article covers 1732 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
Colonial America">American poetry">Colonial America
- Ebenezer Cooke :
- * "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">English poetry">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----"
- 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
- 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, English poet and satirist
- February 21 - William Falconer, Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
- March 29 ' - Jane Barker, English-born poet and playwright
- July 3 ' - Mary Davys, Irish poet and playwright
- December 4 - John Gay, English poet and playwright
- Also - Ebenezer Cooke, English Colonial American poet