1732 in poetry

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Works published

Colonial America

• Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"):
  • "An Elegy on [. . .] William Lock" ^[1]
  • "In Memory of [. . .] Benedict Leonard Calvert ^[1]
• Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry ^[1]
• Richard Lewis:
  • "A Description of Spring" ^[2]
  • "Carmen Saeculare" ^[2]
  • attributed, "A Rhapsody" ^[2]

United Kingdom

• Anonymous, Castle-Howard, has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin ^[3]
• Anonymous, Collection of Pieces ^[4]
• Anonymous, The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing-Room, "By Miss W----" (a reply to Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room, also published this year) ^[3]
• Robert Dodsley, A Muse on Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany ^[3]
• John Gay,Acis and Galatea: An English pastoral opera, ^[3] Gay wrote the libretto for Handel's music
• George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose ^[3]
• William King, The Toast: An epic poem, although the book claimed to be a translation from the Latin of "Frederick Scheffer", it was an original work by King ^[3]
• George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, published anonymously ^[3]
• John Milton, Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley ^[3]
• Richard Savage:
  • An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole ^[3]
  • Editor, A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose [...] Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets ^[3]
• Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, published anonymously ^[3]
• Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope and others, Miscellanies: The Third Volume, in fact, it was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735) ^[3]
• Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal ^[3]
• Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published ^[3]

Other

• Albrecht Haller, Attempt at Swiss Poems, German language, Switzerland ^[5]
• Heyat Mahmud, Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali language, Bengal Subah ^[6]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February – Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet and satirist
• February 21 – William Falconer (lost at sea c. 1770), Scottish poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden (born 1681), German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
• March 29 (buried)– Jane Barker (born 1652), English-born poet and playwright
• July 3 (buried)– Mary Davys (born 1674), Irish poet and playwright
• December 4 – John Gay (born 1685), English poet and playwright
• Also – Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; born c. 1665), English Colonial American poet ^[1]

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN   978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-860634-6.
4. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 38, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN   978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
5. Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
6. Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN   984-32-0576-6. OCLC   52727562. OL   30677644M . Retrieved 27 December 2025.

• "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto