1738 in literature
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The year 1738 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Robert Blair marries Isabella Law.
- Beginning of the mental decline of Jonathan Swift.
- Laurence Sterne is ordained.
- Richard Dawes becomes master of the grammar school at Newcastle upon Tyne.
- "Jenkins' Ear" a cause in Parliament.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - Memoirs of a Man of Quality (transl.)
- Mark Akenside - A British Philippic
- John Banks - Miscellaneous Works
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - De ordine in audiendis philosophicis per triennium academicum quaedam praefatus acroases proximae aestati destinatas indicit Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Louis de Beaufort - Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine
- Elizabeth Carter - Poems
- Alexander Cruden - A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament
- Robert Dodsley - The Art of Preaching
- - Sir John Cockle at Court
- John Gay - Fables: Volume the Second
- Samuel Johnson - London
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Sur la figure de la terre
- Alexander Pope - The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
- - The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
- with Jonathan Swift - An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- - One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight
- - The Universal Prayer
- - One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II
- Frances Seymour - The Story of Inkle and Yarrico
- Jonathan Swift - The Beasts Confession to the Priest
- James Thomson - Works
- William Warburton - The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated
- - A Vindication of the author of the Divine Legation of Moses
- John Wesley - A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
- George Whitefield - A Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia
[edit] New drama
- Robert Dodsley - Sir John Cockle at Court
- Sir Hildebrand Jacob - The Happy Constancy
- - The Prodigal Reformed
- - The Trial of Conjugal Love
- George Lillo - Marina (adapted from Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre)
- James Miller - Art and Nature
- António José da Silva - Precipicio de Faetonte
- James Thomson - Agamemnon
[edit] Births
- May 12 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist (died 1804)
- June 21 - Gottlieb Christoph Harless, bibliographer (died 1815)
- July 24 - Betje Wolff, novelist (died 1804)
- date unknown
- Richard Chandler, antiquary
- Manuel Lassala, dramatist and philosopher
[edit] Deaths
- April 25 - James Laderchi, ecclesiastical historian
- June 5 - Isaac de Beausobre, theologian
- July 8 - Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer
- September 23 - Herman Boerhaave, humanist writer
- date unknown
- John Asgill, pamphleteer
- Jean-Baptiste Labat, polymath
- Laurence Eusden, poet and poet laureate
- Hildebrand Jacob
- George Lillo, playwright
- Margrethe Lasson, writer
