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The year 1729 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion was performed for the first time.
New books
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- - The Fair Hebrew (poss. by Eliza Haywood)
- James Bramston - The Art of Politics
- Moses Browne - Piscatory Eclogues
- Henry Carey - Poems on Several Occasions
- Edward Cooke - Battel of the Poets
- Thomas Cooke - Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables
- Hatchett, William - The Adventures of Abdalla (Translated from the French of Jean Paul Bignon (1662-1743) first published in Paris, 1712, as "Les Avantures d'Abdalla")
- 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 (translation into English of Newton's Latin work)
- John Oldmixon - The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart
- Alexander Pope - The Dunciad, Variorum
- William Pulteney - The Honest Jury
- James Ralph - Clarinda
- Elizabeth Rowe - Letters on Various Occasions
- Richard Savage - The Wanderer
- Thomas Sherlock - The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus
- Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
- - An Epistle Upon an Epistle From a Certain Doctor to a Certain Great Lord
- William Wycherley - The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley ii. (see 1728)
Newly published drama
- Colley Cibber - Love in a Riddle
- Charles Coffey - The Beggar's Wedding
- John Gay - Polly (sequel to The Beggar's Opera, banned from performance by Walpole)
- Eliza Haywood - Frederick
- Charles Johnson - The Village Opera (opera)
- Samuel Johnson of Cheshire - Hurlothrumbo, or The Supernatural
- Thomas Odell - The Patron
- - The Smugglers
- Thomas Southerne - Money the Mistress
- James Thomson - Britannia
Births
- January 12 - Edmund Burke (died 1797)
- January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (died 1781)
- August 11 - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun (died 1807)
- September 25 - Christian Gottlob Heyne (died 1812)
- John Duncombe
- Charlotte Lennox may have been born this year
- Bishop Thomas Percy
- Clara Reeve
- Catherine the Great
Deaths
- January 19 - William Congreve (born 1670)
- May 17 - Samuel Clarke (born 1675)
- September 1 - Richard Steele (born 1672)
- October 9 - Sir Richard Blackmore (born 1654)
- December 13 - Anthony Collins, philosopher (born 1676)
- unknown date - Gershom Carmichael (born c. 1672)
- Abel Boyer
