1734 in literature

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The year 1734 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
Copies of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched.

Henry Carey, as "Benjamin Bounce"
- Chrononhotonthologos
- The Dragon of Wantley (burlesque)
Henry Fielding
- Don Quixote in England
- The Intriguing Chambermaid
Carlo Goldoni - Belisario
James Miller - The Mother-in-Law (adapted from Molière's Le Malade imaginaire and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac)
James Ralph - The Cornish Squire
António José da Silva - Esopaida
James Thomson - The Tragedy of Sophonisba

Anonymous - A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 1733 On Poetry)
Jean Adam - Miscellany Poems
Joseph Addison - A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning (posth.)
John Arbuthnot - Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself
Francis Atterbury - Sermons
George Berkeley - The Analyst
Henry Brooke - Design and Beauty: an Epistle
Isaac Hawkins Browne - On Design and Beauty
Dimitrie Cantemir - History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire (1734 is the date of the first publishing, as the book had been circulating in manuscript)
Robert Dodsley - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
John Jortin - Remarks on Spenser's Poems
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room (on Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room")
Alexander Pope
- Essay on Man
- An Epistle to Lord Cobham ("Moral Epistle I")
- The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- Sober Advice from Horace
Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz - Mémoires
Jonathan Richardson - Explanatory Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost
George Sale - The Koran
Emanuel Swedenborg - Opera philosophica et mineralia
Joseph Trapp - Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things ("Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell")
Voltaire - Lettres anglaises

January 10 - Fleury Mesplet, printer (died 1794
July 25 - Ueda Akinari, Japanese poet and novelist (died 1809)
October 23 - Nicolas-Edme Rétif, novelist (died 1806)
December 31 - Claude Joseph Dorat, "Le Chevalier Dorat" (died 1780)
date unknown
- Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish writer (died 1800)
- Robert Aitken, printer and publisher (died 1802)

January 6 - John Dennis, dramatist and critic (born 1658)
February 24 - Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, writer of fairy tales (born 1664)
March 1 - Roger North (17th century), biographer (born 1653)
April 25 - Johann Conrad Dippel, theologian (born 1673)
September 17 - Thomas Fuller, collector of proverbs (born 1654)
October - Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer (born c.1673)
date unknown
- Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (born 1680)
- James Moore Smythe, dramatist (born 1702)