1734 in literature

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See also: 1733 in literature, other events of 1734, 1735 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Manoel da Assumpcam begins writing his grammar of the Bengali language.
• Copies of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
• Le Cabinet du Philosophe, a new periodical by Pierre de Marivaux, is unsuccessfully launched.

New books

• Design and Beauty: an Epistle - Henry Brooke
• The Analyst - George Berkeley
• History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire - Dimitrie Cantemir (1734 is the date of the first publishing, as the book had been circulating in manuscript)
• Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
• Opera philosophica et mineralia - Emanuel Swedenborg

New drama

• Henry Carey - The Dragon of Wantley (burlesque)
• Carlo Goldoni - Belisario
• James Thomson - The Tragedy of Sophonisba

Births

• July 25 - Ueda Akinari, Japanese poet and novelist
• October 23 - Rétif de la Bretonne, novelist
• December 31 - Claude Joseph Dorat, "Le Chevalier Dorat"

Deaths

• January 6 - John Dennis, dramatist
• March 1 - Roger North, biographerde:1734 (Literatur)