1731 in literature
Overview of the events of 1731 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1731.
Events
New books
Prose
- Thomas Bayes – Divine Benevolence
- Samuel Boyse – Translations and Poems Written on Several Subjects
- Ralph Cudworth (died 1688) – A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
- Robert Dodsley
- An Epistle from a Footman in London to the Celebrated Stephen Duck
- A Sketch of the Miseries of Poverty
- Aaron Hill – Advice to the Poets
- Marie Huber – Le Monde fou préféré au monde sage, en vingt-quatre promenades de trois amis, Criton philosophe, Philon avocat, Eraste négociant (The world unmask'd: or, The philosopher the greatest cheat; in twenty-four dialogues between Crito a philosopher, Philo a lawyer, and Erastus, a merchant)
- Madame de La Fayette – Memoires de la Cour de France
- William Law – The Case of Reason
- Pierre de Marivaux – La Vie de Marianne (The Life of Marianne), part one
- William Oldys – A Dissertation Upon Pamphlets
- Arabella Plantin – Love Led Astray (Or, the Mutual Inconstancy)
- Alexander Pope – An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington (also Epistle to Burlington, and to contemporaries as Of False Taste)
- Abbé Prévost
- Manon Lescaut
- Le Philosophe anglais, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell (The Life and Entertaining Adventures of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell)
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Letters Moral and Entertaining
- Jean Terrasson – Life of Sethos
- Jethro Tull – The New Horse-Houghing Husbandry, or, An essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation wherein is shewn, a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, to increase their product, and diminish the common expence, by the use of instruments lately invented by Jethro Tull
- Diego de Torres Villarroel – Barca de Aqueronte
Drama
Poetry
- Nicholas Amhurst (as Caleb D'Anvers) – A Collection of Poems
- Jeremy Jingle (pseudonym) – Spiritual Fornication. A burlesque poem. Wherein the case of Miss Cadiere and Father Girard are merrily display'd
- Joseph Trapp – The Works of Virgil
Births
Deaths
References
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