1738 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1738.

Events

• April 11 - Robert Blair marries Isabella Law.
• July 10 - Richard Dawes is appointed master of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.
• August - Laurence Sterne is ordained a priest, and in the autumn becomes vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest.
• Beginning of the mental decline of Jonathan Swift.^[1]
• Samtal emellan Argi Skugga och en obekant Fruentimbers Skugga by Margareta Momma

New books

Prose

• James Anderson - The Constitutions of the Free-Masons, 2nd ed.
• John Banks - Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose
• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - De ordine in audiendis philosophicis per triennium academicum quaedam praefatus acroases proximae aestati destinatas indicit Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
• Louis de Beaufort - Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine
• Alexander Cruden - A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament
• Robert Dodsley - The Art of Preaching
• David Hume (anonymously) - A Treatise of Human Nature (dated 1739)
• Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Sur la figure de la terre
• Abbé Prévost - Memoirs of a Man of Quality (anonymous English translation)
• Jonathan Swift
  • The Beasts Confession to the Priest
  • A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation
• William Warburton
  • The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated
  • A Vindication of the author of the Divine Legation of Moses
• George Whitefield - A Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia
• Diego de Torres Villarroel
  • Anatomía de todo lo visible e invisible
  • Vida ejemplar de la venerable madre Gregoria Francisca de Santa Teresa

Drama

• Robert Dodsley - Sir John Cockle at Court
• Carlo Goldoni
  • Momolo Cortesan
  • L'uomo di mondo
• Sir Hildebrand Jacob
  • The Happy Constancy
  • The Prodigal Reformed
  • The Trial of Conjugal Love
• George Lillo - Marina (adapted from Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre)
• James Miller - Art and Nature
• António José da Silva - Precipicio de Faetonte
• James Thomson - Agamemnon

Poetry

• Mark Akenside (anonymously) - A British Philippic
• Elizabeth Carter (anonymously) - Poems Upon Particular Occasions
• John Gay - Fables: Volume the Second
• Eugenio Gerardo Lobo - Obras poéticas líricas
• Samuel Johnson - London, A Poem, on the Third Satire of Juvenal
• Alexander Pope
  • The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
  • The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
  • (with Jonathan Swift) 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
• "The Right Hon. the Countess of ****" (Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford) - The Story of Inkle and Yarrico
• James Thomson - The Works of Mr Thomson
• Diego de Torres Villarroel - Juguetes de Talia, entretenimiento del numen
• John Wesley - A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (first English edition)

Births

• February 9 (bapt.) – Mary Whateley, English poet and playwright (died 1825)
• May 9 – John Wolcot, English satirist and poet (died 1819)
• May 12 – Jonathan Boucher, English philologist (died 1804)
• May 27 – Moritz August von Thümmel, German humorist and satirical author (died 1817)
• June 21 – Gottlieb Christoph Harless, German bibliographer (died 1815)
• July 24 – Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (died 1804)
• December 4 – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann, German poet, playwright and storyteller (died 1809)
• Unknown date – Manuel Lassala, Spanish dramatist and philosopher (died 1806)

Deaths

• January 6 – Jean-Baptiste Labat, French polymath (born 1663)
• March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (born 1659)
• April 25 – Giacomo Laderchi, Italian ecclesiastical historian (born c. 1678)
• June 5 – Isaac de Beausobre, French theologian (born 1659)
• July 8 – Jean-Pierre Nicéron, French lexicographer (born 1685)
• September 4 – George Lillo, English playwright (born 1691)
• September 23 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist writer (born 1668)
• November 10 – John Asgill, English pamphleteer (born 1659)

References

1. Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization. 8.