poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 1 – The Gentleman's Magazine is started and edited by Edward Cave ("Sylvanus Urban") in...

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Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth Charles Gildon – The Laws of Poetry Eliza Haywood – Letters from a Lady of Quality to a Chevalier (translation)...

and publications of 1731. January 1 – The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer is launched by Edward Cave in London. July – Alexander...

1735 in poetry 1734 in poetry 1733 in poetry 1732 in poetry 1731 in poetry 1730 in poetry 1729 in poetry 1728 in poetry 1727 in poetry 1726 in poetry 1725...

Lady Norton (died 1731), English poetry religious poet and prose writer Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Nicholas Bourbon...

literary events and publications of 1732. April – The London Magazine is founded in opposition to the pro-Tory Gentlemen's Magazine. December 7 – The original...

Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...

Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until...

Johnson. January 29 – John Rich, manager of the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, mounts the first production of The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera...

Unfortunate Lady 1728: Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry 1728: The Dunciad 1731–1735: Moral Essays 1733–1734: Essay on Man 1735: Epistle to...

Nymph Going to Bed Anonymous – A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 1733 On Poetry) Joseph Addison (died 1719) – A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning...

Tragical Elegy" (1731): Full annotated text: Jack Lynch "The Day of Judgment" (1731): Full text "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D." (1731–32): Full...

The Metamorphosis of the Town James Thomson – The Seasons See also 1730 in poetry March 27 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English critic (died 1786) April 1 – Salomon...

Burlington 1731 (see also Thomas Newcomb's The Woman of Taste, below) John Durant Breval, writing under the pen name "Joseph Gay", Morality in Vice: An...

William Cowper (/ˈkuːpər/ KOO-pər; 15 November 1731 (Julian) / 26 November 1731 (Gregorian) – 14 April 1800 (Julian) / 25 April 1800 (Gregorian)) was an...

Francisco Javier Alegre (1729–1788) Francisco Javier Clavijero (1731–1787) Rafael Landivar (1731–1793) José Mariano Beristain (1756–1817) José Joaquín Fernández...

Entertaining Jonathan Swift On Poetry, a Rhapsody (contains explicit attacks on George II and many of the "dunces", resulting in arrests and prosecution.)...

Voltaire – La Henriade Leonard Welsted – Epistles, Odes, &c. See also 1724 in poetry January 12 – Frances Brooke, English novelist and dramatist (died 1789)...

such favourite fairy tales as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots. James Bramston – The Art of Politics Henry Carey – Poems on Several...

He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731. Bach composed this cantata to...

was preserved in the 10th-century manuscript Cotton Otho B.x, fol. 165a – 165b, housed at the Cotton library in London, England. In 1731, the manuscript...

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three epistles will be finished by 1731 and published in early 1733, with the fourth and final epistle published in 1734. Originally published anonymously...

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stage production in the Swedish language by native-born actors is given in Sweden, of the comedy Den Svenska Sprätthöken at the Bollhuset in Stockholm. November...

Pack – A New Collection of Miscellanies Christopher Pitt – Vida's Art of Poetry (translation of Marco Girolamo Vida) Richard Savage – The Authors of the...

Spectator were on the rise, from 1731 began to publish his Hollandsche Spectator ("Dutch Spectator") magazine, which his death in 1735 soon brought to a close...

Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. author, and sold. Donna Landry; Professor Donna Landry (1990). The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain...

romances. These were joined in the fifteenth century by Scots prose works. In the early modern era royal patronage supported poetry, prose and drama. James...