 the year 1730 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works. ==events== *january 8 - the grub street journal is launched; it will last for 418 issues. *april - metastasio settles in vienna. *september/october - colley cibber becomes poet laureate of great britain. *december 11 - voltaire's brutus is finally staged. ==new books== * joseph addison - the evidence of the christian religion (posth.) * john banks - the weaver's miscellany * thomas cooke as "scriblerus tertius" - the candidates for the bays * philip doddridge - free thoughts on the most probable means of reviving the dissenting interest * johann christoph gottsched - versuch einer kritischen dichtkunst fÃ¼r die deutschen * john hervey, 2nd baron hervey - observations on the writings of the craftsman * george lyttelton, 1st baron lyttelton - an epistle to mr. pope * jonathan swift - a libel on d--- d------, and a certain great lord * matthew tindal - christianity as old as creation * william whiston - life of samuel clarke * william wotton - a discourse concerning the confusion of languages at babel (posth.) * edward young - two epistles to mr. pope ==new drama== * theophilus cibber - patie and peggy (opera) * henry fielding **the author's farce **rape upon rape **the temple beau **tom thumb * george lillo - silvia * pierre de marivaux - le jeu de l'amour et du hasard * james miller - the humours of oxford * john mottley - the widow bewitch'd * gabriel odingsells - bay's opera *james ralph - the fashionable lady * james thomson - the tragedy of sophonisba ==poetry== * stephen duck - poems on several subjectsbatt, jennifer. "from the field to the coffeehouse: changing representations of stephen duck." criticism, landry, d. and w. christmas, eds. (47):4, 451â70. * matthew pilkington - poems on several occasions * elizabeth thomas - the metamorphosis of the townblain, virginia, et al., eds. "thomas, elizabeth." the feminist companion to literature in english. new haven and london: yale up, 1990. 1075-1076. * james thomson - the seasons *see also 1730 in poetry ==births== *march 27 - thomas tyrwhitt, critic (died 1786) *april 1 - salomon gessner, swiss painter and poet (died 1788) *august 20 - paul henri mallet, swiss historian (died 1807) *november 10 - oliver goldsmith, poet and dramatist (died 1774) ==deaths== *january 7 - Ãrni magnÃºsson, icelandic scholar (born 1663) *february 9 - johann georg von eckhart, german h
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