1729 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1729.
Events
- Charles Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697) is translated into English for the first time, by Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, including such favourite fairy tales as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots.
- The Derge Sutra Printing Temple, one of the most important cultural, social, religious and historical institutions in Tibet, is founded by Dongba Tseren.
New books
Prose
- Eliza Haywood (attributed) – The Fair Hebrew
- James Bramston – The Art of Politics
- Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions
- Edward Cooke – Battel of the Poets
- Thomas Cooke – Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables
- Daniel Defoe as Andrew Moreton, Esq. – Second Thoughts are Best: or, a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
- William Hatchett – The Adventures of Abdalla (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Bignon first published in Paris, 1712, as Les Avantures d'Abdalla)
- Eliza Haywood – The Fair Hebrew; or, A True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies
- Thomas Innes – Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain
- Soame Jenyns – The Art of Dancing
- William Law – A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (extremely popular devotional manual)
- Daniel Mace – The New Testament in Greek and English (a diaglot)
- Isaac Newton – The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (English translation of Newton's Latin work)
- John Oldmixon – The History of England, during the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart
- William Pulteney – The Honest Jury
- James Ralph – Clarinda
- Elizabeth Rowe – Letters on Various Occasions
- Richard Savage – The Wanderer
- Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus
- Jonathan Swift
- An Epistle Upon an Epistle From a Certain Doctor to a Certain Great Lord
- A Modest Proposal
- William Wycherley – The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley ii. (see 1728)
- Benito Jerónimo Feijoo – Ilustración apologética
Children
- Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose
Drama
- Colley Cibber – Love in a Riddle
- Charles Coffey – The Beggar's Wedding
- John Gay – Polly (sequel to The Beggar's Opera, banned from performance by Walpole)
- Eliza Haywood – Frederick
- Charles Johnson – The Village Opera (opera)
- Samuel Johnson (dramatist) – Hurlothrumbo, or The Supernatural
- Thomas Odell
- The Patron
- The Smugglers
- Thomas Southerne – Money the Mistress
- James Thomson – Britannia
Poetry
- Moses Browne – Piscatory Eclogues
- Alexander Pope – The Dunciad, Variorum
Births
- January 12 – Edmund Burke, Irish political writer and politician (died 1797)
- January 22 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer, dramatist and critic (died 1781)
- April 13 – Bishop Thomas Percy, poet, translator and bishop (died 1811)
- August 11 – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, French poet (died 1807)
- September 25 – Christian Gottlob Heyne German classicist and archaeologist (died 1812)
- September 29 – John Duncombe, English poet, antiquary and cleric (died 1786)
- Unknown dates
- Thomas Hawkins, English editor and cleric (died 1772)
- Clara Reeve, English novelist (died 1807)
Deaths
- January 19 – William Congreve, English dramatist and poet (born 1670)
- May 17 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (born 1675)
- September 1 – Richard Steele, Irish journalist, satirist and dramatist (born 1672)
- October 9 – Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and religious writer (born 1654)
- November 16 – Abel Boyer, French-born lexicographer, journalist and miscellanist (born c. 1667)
- December 13 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (born 1676)
- Unknown date – Gershom Carmichael, Scottish philosopher (born c. 1672)