1729 in literature
Overview of the events of 1729 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1729 .
Events
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
Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd [2]
Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus [3]
Jonathan Swift
Jacob Campo Weyerman - De levens-beschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen (The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses )
William Wycherley – The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley ii. (see 1728 )
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Ilustración apologética
Children
Drama
Poetry
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 )[5]
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 )[6]
May 17 – Samuel Clarke , English philosopher and cleric (born 1675 )[7]
September 1 – Richard Steele , Irish journalist, satirist and dramatist (born 1672 )[8]
October 9 – Sir Richard Blackmore , English poet and religious writer (born 1654 )[9]
November 16 – Abel Boyer , French-born lexicographer, journalist and miscellanist (born c. 1667)
December 13 – Anthony Collins , English philosopher (born 1676 )[10]
December 26 – Honoré Tournély , French theologian (b. 1658 )[11]
Unknown date – Gershom Carmichael , Scottish philosopher (born c. 1672)[12]
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 .
^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister" . Welsh Biography Online . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021 .
^ Bietenholz, Peter (1994). Historia and fabula : myths and legends in historical thought from antiquity to the modern age . Leiden New York: Brill. p. 321. ISBN 9789004247130 .
^ Wittkowsky, George (1943), "Swift's Modest Proposal : The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet", Journal of the History of Ideas , 4 (1), University of Pennsylvania Press: 75–104, doi :10.2307/2707237 , JSTOR 2707237
^ "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.
^ "Parish Church of St Peter, Carmarthen" . BritishListedBuildings. Retrieved 24 September 2018 .
^ Albert Rosenberg (1953). Sir Richard Blackmore: A Poet and Physician of the Augustan Age . University of Nebraska Press. pp. 158–160.
^ Charles Bradlaugh (1956). Half-hours with the Freethinkers . J. Watts. p. 46.
^ John McClintock; James Strong (1889). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature . Harper & Brothers. p. 500.
^ 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 .