1730 in literature
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The year 1730 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.
- Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
- Metastasio settles in Vienna.
- The Grub-Street Journal is launched; it will last for 418 issues.
[edit] 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 für 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Poetry
- Stephen Duck - Poems on Several Subjects
- Matthew Pilkington - Poems on Several Occasions
- Elizabeth Thomas - The Metamorphosis of the Town
- James Thomson - The Seasons
- See also 1730 in poetry
[edit] Births
- March 27 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, critic (died 1786)
- April 1 - Solomon Gessner (died 1788)
- August 20 - Paul Henri Mallet (died 1807)
- November 10 (probable) - Oliver Goldsmith (died 1774)
- July 12 - Josiah Wedgwood (died 1795)
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)
- February 9 - Johann Georg von Eckhart, historian (born 1664)
- September 27 - Laurence Eusden, Poet Laureate (born 1688)
- October 23 - Anne Oldfield, actress (born 1683)
- date unknown
- Laurence Echard, historian (born c. 1670)
- Elijah Fenton, poet (born 1683)
- Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680)
