1732 in literature

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See also: 1731 in literature, other events of 1732, 1733 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• First appearance of Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Deaths

• February 22 - Francis Atterbury
• March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, poet and lexicographer
• December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)