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The year 1732 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, by Benjamin Franklin, is published.
- Alexander Pope begins Essay on Man, with the first two "Epistles: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (1) "The Universe" and (2) "Himself as an Individual" (the 3rd/4th were written in 1733/1744).
- The first Royal Opera House at Covent Garden opens on December 7.
New books
- Anonymous - Castle-Howard
- - The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing Room (reply to Swift)
- - A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose . . . on Occasion of the Dunciad
- Corporate authorship - the London Magazine (periodical)
- 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
- John Horsley - Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain
- William King - The Toast
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - The Progress of Love
- John Milton - Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
- Daniel Neal - The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists
- Richard Savage - An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
- 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
Newly printed plays
- Henry Carey - Amelia (opera)
- - The Disappointment
- - Terminta
- Henry Fielding - The Lottery
- - The Modern Husband
- - The Covent-Garden Tragedy
- - The Old Debauchees
- - The Mock Doctor
- John Gay (with Alexander Pope) - Acis and Galatea (opera by Handel)
- John Kelly - The Married Philosopher
Births
- January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
- February 19 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist) (died 1811)
- September 29 - Samuel Musgrave, classical scholar and pamphleteer (died 1780)
- unknown date - George Colman the Elder (died 1794)
- John Ogilvie
- Franz Joseph Haydin
- George Washington, American President
Deaths
- February 22 - Francis Atterbury (born 1663)
- March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, poet and lexicographer (born 1681)
- December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)
- Jane Barker, dramatist and poet
- Mary Davys, poet and dramatist
