# 1732 in literature

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)