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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1732.

Events

  • April – The London Magazine is founded in opposition to the pro-Tory Gentlemen's Magazine.
  • December 7 – The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich with a revival of William Congreve's The Way of the World.
  • December 13 – The first issue of Then Swänska Argus, by Olof von Dalin, is published in Sweden, introducing the "younger new Swedish" (yngre nysvenska) literary language.
  • December 28 – The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, by Benjamin Franklin, is published in America.
  • unknown date – Trinity College Library in Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, is completed.

New books

Prose

  • George Berkeley – Alciphron
  • Johann Jakob Bodmer – translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost into German prose
  • Elizabeth Boyd – The Happy-Unfortunate
  • Mary Davys – The False Friend (fiction)
  • Philip Doddridge – Sermons on the Religious Education of Children
  • Robert Dodsley – A Muse in Livery
  • George Granville, Lord Lansdowne – The Genuine Works
  • Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Sultanes de Guzarate, contes mogols (Mogul Tales; or, the Dreams of Men Awake)
  • John Horsley – Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain
  • William King – The Toast
  • Alain-René Lesage – Les avantures de monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchêne, capitaine de flibustiers dans la Nouvelle-France (The Adventures of Robert Chevalier, Call'd de Beauchene, Captain of a Privateer in New-France)
  • George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – The Progress of Love
  • Daniel Neal – The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists
  • Richard Savage – An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
  • Philip Skippon – An Account of a Journey Made Thro ̓ Part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France
  • Jonathan Swift
  • The Lady's Dressing Room
  • The Grand Question Debated
  • (with Pope and others) Miscellanies: The Third Volume
  • Isaac Watts – A Short View of the Whole Scripture History
  • Leonard Welsted – Of Dulness and Scandal (answer to The Dunciad)
  • Gilbert West – Stowe
  • Martín Sarmiento – Demostración apologética

Drama

  • Henry Carey
  • Amelia (opera)
  • The Disappointment
  • Terminta
  • Henry Fielding
  • The Lottery
  • The Modern Husband
  • The Covent-Garden Tragedy
  • The Old Debauchees
  • The Mock Doctor (performed)
  • John Gay (with Alexander Pope) – Acis and Galatea (opera by Handel)
  • Charles Johnson – Caelia
  • John Kelly – The Married Philosopher
  • Pierre de Marivaux – The Triumph of Love (Le Triomphe de l'amour)
  • James Miller – The Modish Couple
  • Voltaire – Zaïre

Poetry

  • Heyat Mahmud – Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali
  • John Milton – Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley

Births

  • January 6 – Matija Antun Relković, Croatian grammarian and poet (died 1798)
  • January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
  • February – Charles Churchill, English satirist and poet (died 1764)
  • February 19 – Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (died 1811)
  • April – George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (died 1794)
  • August 24 – Peter Ernst Wilde, German physician, journalist and printer (died 1785)
  • September 29 – Samuel Musgrave, English classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)

Deaths

  • February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (born 1640)
  • February 22 – Bishop Francis Atterbury, English politician and writer (born 1663)
  • March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German poet and lexicographer (born 1681)
  • March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker, English dramatist and poet (born 1652)
  • May 9 – Samuel Palmer, English printer (year of birth unknown)
  • July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1674)
  • December 2 – Constantia Grierson, Irish poet and classical scholar (born c. 1705)
  • December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)
  • December 22 – Joseph Thurston, English poet (born 1704)

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