1739 in literature
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The year 1739 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- January 16 - First performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Saul at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London.[1]
- February - George Whitefield first preaches in the open air.
- April - John Wesley first preaches in the open air, at Whitefield's invitation.
- April 4 - First performance of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt at the King's Theatre, London.[1]
- April 7 - Celebrity hanging of highwayman Dick Turpin at York.
- October 23 - Britain declares war on Spain. This becomes known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.[1]
- Henry Brooke's drama Gustavus Vasa is the first play banned under the Licensing Act of 1737.
[edit] New books
- Corporate authorship - The Scots Magazine (periodical)[2]
- Penelope Aubin - A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels
- Henry Baker and James Miller - The Works of Molière, French and English (transl.)
- Moses Browne - Poems
- Elizabeth Carter - Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man (transl.)
- - Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of Ladies (transl.)
- Mary Collier - The Woman's Labour (an answer to Stephen Duck from the "milkmaid poet")
- Philip Doddridge - The Family Expositor
- Henry Fielding as "Captain Hercules Vinegar" - The Champion (periodical)
- Richard Glover - London
- David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature
- William Law - The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration
- Mikhail Lomonosov - Ode on the Taking of Khotin from the Turks
- John Mottley as "Elijah Jenkins" - Joe Miller's Jests; or, the Wits Vade-Mecum
- Robert Craggs Nugent - An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole (attrib.)
- - An Ode on Mr. Pulteney
- - An Ode, to His Royal Highness on His Birthday
- - Odes and Epistles
- John Oldmixon - The History of England During the Reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Queen Mary. Queen Elizabeth
- Laetitia Pilkington - The Statues
- Samuel Richardson - Aesop's Fables
- Elizabeth Rowe - Miscellaneous Works
- Thomas Sheridan - The Satires of Juvenal Translated
- Jonathan Swift - Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
- Joseph Trapp - The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger, of Being Righteous Over-much (against George Whitefield)
- Voltaire - De la gloire, ou entretien avec un Chinois
- - Conseils a M. Helvetius
- Isaac Watts - The World to Come
- John Wesley - Hymns and Sacred Poems
- George Whitefield - A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal
- Paul Whitehead - Manners
[edit] Newly published drama
- Daniel Bellamy - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
- Henry Carey - Nancy (opera)
- Thomas Cooke - The Mournful Nuptials (not acted)
- David Mallet - Mustapha
- James Miller - An Hospital for Fools
- Edward Phillips - Britons, Strike Home
- William Shirley - The Parricide
- James Thomson - Edward and Eleonara
[edit] Births
- November 20 - Jean-François de la Harpe, French critic (died 1803)
- date unknown
- Johann Augustus Eberhard, theologian and philosopher (died 1809)
- Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (died 1777)
[edit] Deaths
- June 20 - Edmond Martène, historian (born 1654)
- July 25 - Johann Christoph Wolf, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer (born 1683)
- October 18 - António José da Silva, dramatist (born 1705)
- date unknown
- George Lillo, dramatist
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Ward, A. W. (2009). The Cambridge History of English Literature. 9. p. 614. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fOLM-Brl72kC&pg=PA614&dq=%22scots+magazine%22+January+1739&hl=en&ei=mVEwTPiGDZDKjAfcmeWWBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=%22scots%20magazine%22%20January%201739&f=false.
