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Overview of the events of 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 .