1730 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1730.

Events

• January 8 – The Grub Street Journal is launched in London; it will last for 418 issues.
• April – Pietro Metastasio settles in Vienna.
• September/October – Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• December 11 – Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.

New books

Prose

• Joseph Addison – The Evidences of the Christian Religion (posthumous)
• 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 (posthumous) – A Discourse Concerning the Confusion of Languages at Babel
• Edward Young – Two Epistles to Mr. Pope

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

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

Births

• March 27 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English critic (died 1786)
• April 1 – Salomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
• August 20 – Paul Henri Mallet, Swiss historian (died 1807)
• November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (died 1774)
• December 6 – Sophie von La Roche (Maria Sophie Gutermann von Gutershofen), German novelist (died 1807)
• Joakim Stulić, Croatian lexicographer (died 1817)
• Tarikonda Venkamamba, Telugu poet (died 1817)
• Unknown date – Thomas Marryat, English medical writer and physician (died 1792)
• Probable year of birth – Charlotte Lennox, Gibraltar-born Scottish novelist and poet (died 1804)

Deaths

• January 7 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)
• February 9 – Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian (born 1664)
• March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (born 1692)
• July 16 – Elijah Fenton, English poet (born 1683)
• August 16 – Laurence Echard, English historian (born c. 1670)
• September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate (born 1688)
• October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (born 1683)
• Unknown date – Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680)