1738 in literature
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The year 1738 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Robert BlairRobert Blair (poet)Robert Blair was a Scottish poet.-Biography:He was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Blair, one of the king's chaplains, and was born at Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and in the Netherlands, and in 1731 was appointed to the living of Athelstaneford in East Lothian...
marries Isabella Law. - Beginning of the mental decline of Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
. - Laurence SterneLaurence SterneLaurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics...
is ordained. - Richard DawesRichard Dawes-Life:He was born in or near Market Bosworth, England, and was educated at the town grammar school under Anthony Blackwall, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was elected fellow in 1731. His eccentricities and frank speaking made him unpopular. His health broke down as a result of his...
becomes master of the grammar school at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. - "Jenkins' Ear" a cause in Parliament.
New books
- Anonymous - Memoirs of a Man of Quality (transl.)
- Mark AkensideMark AkensideMark Akenside was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver...
- A British Philippic - John BanksJohn BanksJohn Banks may refer to:*Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet , English merchant and Member of Parliament for several constituencies in Kent*John Banks , English playwright*John Banks *John Banks John Banks may refer to:*Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet (1627–1699), English merchant and Member of Parliament for...
- Miscellaneous Works - Alexander Gottlieb BaumgartenAlexander Gottlieb BaumgartenAlexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was a German philosopher.-Biography:Baumgarten was born in Berlin as the fifth of seven sons of the pietist pastor of the garrison, Jacob Baumgarten and his wife Rosina Elisabeth....
- De ordine in audiendis philosophicis per triennium academicum quaedam praefatus acroases proximae aestati destinatas indicit Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - Louis de BeaufortLouis de BeaufortLouis de Beaufort was a French historian of whose life little is known.In 1738 he published at Utrecht a Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine, in which he showed what untrustworthy guides even the historians of highest repute, such as Livy and Dionysius of...
- Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine - Elizabeth CarterElizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter was an English poet, classicist, writer and translator, and a member of the Bluestocking Circle.-Biography:...
- Poems - Alexander CrudenAlexander CrudenAlexander Cruden was the author of an early concordance to the Bible, and also served as Alexander the Corrector, a self-styled national corrector of signs, books and morals.-Early life:...
- A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament - Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
- The Art of Preaching- - Sir John Cockle at Court
- John GayJohn GayJohn Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
- Fables: Volume the Second - Samuel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
- London - Pierre Louis MaupertuisPierre Louis MaupertuisPierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great....
- Sur la figure de la terre - Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
- The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated- - The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
- with Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
- An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace - - One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight
- - The Universal Prayer
- - One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II
- Frances SeymourFrances SeymourHonorable Frances Seymour was the daughter of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge and Mary Smith.She married Sir George Hungerford and they had at least six children together:* George Hungerford* Walter Hungerford...
- The Story of Inkle and Yarrico - Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
- The Beasts Confession to the Priest- - A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious ConversationA Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious ConversationA Complete Collection of genteel and ingenious Conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best Companies of England, commonly known as A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation is a book by Jonathan Swift offering an ironic and...
- - A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation
- James Thomson - Works
- William WarburtonWilliam WarburtonWilliam Warburton was an English critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759.-Life:He was born at Newark, where his father, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was town clerk. William was educated at Oakham and Newark grammar schools, and in 1714 he was articled to Mr Kirke, an...
- The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated- - A Vindication of the author of the Divine Legation of Moses
- John WesleyJohn WesleyJohn Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
- A Collection of Psalms and Hymns - George WhitefieldGeorge WhitefieldGeorge Whitefield , also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally...
- A Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia
New drama
- Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
- Sir John Cockle at Court - Sir Hildebrand Jacob - The Happy Constancy
- - The Prodigal Reformed
- - The Trial of Conjugal Love
- George LilloGeorge LilloGeorge Lillo was an English playwright and tragedian. He was a jeweler in London as well as a dramatist. He produced his first stage work, Silvia, or The Country Burial, in 1730. A year later, he produced his most famous play, The London Merchant...
- Marina (adapted from Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of TyrePericles, Prince of TyrePericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio...
) - James Miller - Art and Nature
- António José da SilvaAntónio José da SilvaAntónio José da Silva was a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew" . The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio.-Life:...
- Precipicio de Faetonte - James Thomson - Agamemnon
Births
- May 12 - Jonathan BoucherJonathan BoucherJonathan Boucher was an English clergyman, teacher and philologist.-Early career:Boucher was born in Blencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton grammar school. After training in Workington, Jonathan became a teacher at St Bees School and in 1759 went to Virginia, where he became...
, philologist (died 1804) - June 21 - Gottlieb Christoph HarlessGottlieb Christoph HarlessGottlieb Christoph Harless was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.-Biography:He was born at Culmbach in Bavaria. He studied at the universities of Halle, Erlangen and Jena...
, bibliographer (died 1815) - July 24 - Betje WolffBetje WolffElizabeth Wolff-Bekker was a Dutch writer.On 18 November 1759 she married the 52-year-old clergyman Adriaan Wolff. In 1763 she published her first collection Bespiegelingen over het genoegen...
, novelist (died 1804) - date unknown
- Richard ChandlerRichard ChandlerRichard Chandler was an English antiquary.Chandler was educated at Winchester and at Queen's College, Oxford and Magdalen College, Oxford....
, antiquary - Manuel LassalaManuel LassalaManuel Lassala San Germán was a Spanish Jesuit dramatist and humanist philosopher....
, dramatist and philosopher
- Richard Chandler
Deaths
- April 25 - James LaderchiJames LaderchiJames Laderchi m was an Italian Oratorian and ecclesiastical historian.-Biography and works:He was born at Faenza near Ravenna, and died in Rome....
, ecclesiastical historian - June 5 - Isaac de BeausobreIsaac de BeausobreIsaac de Beausobre was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his history of Manichaeism, Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme in two volumes ....
, theologian - July 8 - Jean-Pierre NicéronJean-Pierre NicéronJean-Pierre Nicéron was a French lexicographer.He was born in Paris. After his studies at the Collège Mazarin, he joined the Barnabites . He taught rhetoric in the college of Loches, and soon after at Montargis, where he remained ten years.While engaged in teaching, he made a thorough study of...
, lexicographer - September 23 - Herman BoerhaaveHerman BoerhaaveHerman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions...
, humanist writer - date unknown
- John AsgillJohn AsgillJohn Asgill was an eccentric English writer and politician.-Life:He studied law at the Middle Temple, 1686, and was called to the bar in 1692. He founded the first land bank in 1695 with Nicholas Barbon, which, after proving to be a profitable venture, merged with the land bank of John Briscoe in...
, pamphleteer - Jean-Baptiste LabatJean-Baptiste LabatJean-Baptiste Labat was a French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner.-Life:...
, polymath - Laurence EusdenLaurence EusdenLaurence Eusden was an English poet who became Poet Laureate in 1718.- Life :Laurence Eusden was born in Spofforth in the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1688 to the Rev. Laurence Eusden, rector of Spofforth, Yorkshire. Eusden was baptized on 6 September 1688...
, poet and poet laureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events... - Hildebrand Jacob
- George LilloGeorge LilloGeorge Lillo was an English playwright and tragedian. He was a jeweler in London as well as a dramatist. He produced his first stage work, Silvia, or The Country Burial, in 1730. A year later, he produced his most famous play, The London Merchant...
, playwright - Margrethe LassonMargrethe LassonAnna Margrethe Lasson was a Danish novelist, the first novelist in Denmark.Lasson was born in Copenhagen, to Jens Lassen , a judge on Fyn, and Margrethe Christensdatter Lund, and grew up on Dalum Kloster manor...
, writer
- John Asgill