1732 in literature
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See also: 1731 in literature, other events of 1732, 1733 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- First appearance of Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin
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New books
- The Lady's Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift
- Johann Jakob Bodmer's translation of Paradise Lost into German prose
- Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain by John Horsley
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Births
- January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
- February 19 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
- September 29 - Samuel Musgrave, classical scholar and pamphleteer
- unknown date - George Colman the Elder
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Deaths
- February 22 - Francis Atterbury
- March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, poet and lexicographer
- December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)