This article covers 1732 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Works published
Colonial America Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"): "An Elegy on [. . .] William Lock"Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books "In Memory of [. . .] Benedict Leonard Calvert Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry Richard Lewis: "A Description of Spring"Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press "Carmen Saeculare" attributed, "A Rhapsody"
United Kingdom Anonymous, Castle-Howard, has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin Anonymous, Collection of PiecesClark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 38, Franklin, Burt, 1971, , retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010 Anonymous, The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing-Room, "By Miss W----" (a reply to Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room, also published this year) Robert Dodsley, A Muse on Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany John Gay,Acis and Galatea: An English pastoral opera, Gay wrote the libretto for Handel's music George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose William King, The Toast: An epic poem, although the book claimed to be a translation from the Latin of "Frederick Scheffer", it was an original work by King George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, published anonymously John Milton, Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley Richard Savage: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole Editor, A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose [...] Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, published anonymously Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope and others, Miscellanies: The Third Volume, in fact, it was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735) Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published
Other Albrecht Haller, Attempt at Swiss Poems, German language, SwitzerlandThomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009 Heyat Mahmud, Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali language, Bengal Subah
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February – Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet and satirist February 21 – William Falconer (lost at sea c. 1770), Scottish poet
Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden (born 1681), German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker (born 1652), English-born poet and playwright July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys (born 1674), Irish poet and playwright December 4 – John Gay (born 1685), English poet and playwright Also – Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; born c. 1665), English Colonial American poet
See also
Poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature 18th century in poetry 18th century in literature Augustan poetry Scriblerus Club
Notes
"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto