1730 in literature

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## Events

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* January 7 – The death of the Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon activates the bequest to the University of Copenhagen in Denmark of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, which he has assembled.[1]
* January 8 – The Grub Street Journal is launched in London, with Richard Russel and John Martyn as editors.[2] It lasts for 418 issues.
* April 17 – Pietro Metastasio arrives in Vienna, where he settles permanently.[3]
* December 3 – Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of Great Britain, in succession to Laurence Eusden.[4]
* December 11 – Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.[5]
* unknown date – Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed in America, when it is staged in New York City.[6]

## New books

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### Prose

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* Joseph Addison – The Evidences of the Christian Religion (posthumous)[7]
* John Bancks – The Weaver's Miscellany[8]
* Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix – Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue
* Thomas Cooke as "Scriblerus Tertius" – The Candidates for the Bays
* Yaakov Culi – Me'am Lo'ez[9]
* Philip Doddridge – Free Thoughts on the Most Probable Means of Reviving the Dissenting Interest
* Johann Christoph Gottsched – Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen
* John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey – Observations on the Writings of the Craftsman
* George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – An Epistle to Mr. Pope
* Pierre des Maizeaux – Vie de Bayle
* Isaac Rand – Index plantarum officinalium, quas ad materiae medicae scientiam promovendam, in horto Chelseiano (catalogue of plants in Chelsea Physic Garden)
* Philip Johan von Strahlenberg – Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia)
* Jonathan Swift – A Libel on D—— D——, and a Certain Great Lord
* Matthew Tindal – Christianity as Old as Creation
* William Whiston – Life of Samuel Clarke
* William Wotton (posthumous) – A Discourse Concerning the Confusion of Languages at Babel
* Edward Young – Two Epistles to Mr. Pope

### Drama

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* Theophilus Cibber – Patie and Peggy (opera)
* Henry Fielding
* The Author's Farce
* Rape upon Rape
* The Temple Beau
* Tom Thumb
* Charles Johnson – The Tragedy of Medea
* George Lillo – Sylvia
* Pierre de Marivaux – The Game of Love and Chance
* Benjamin Martyn – Timoleon[10]
* James Miller – The Humours of Oxford
* John Mottley – The Widow Bewitched
* Gabriel Odingsells – Bayes's Opera
* James Ralph – The Fashionable Lady
* James Thomson – Sophonisba
* Edward Ward – The Prisoner's Opera

### Poetry

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* Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Subjects[11] (including "The Thresher's Labour")
* Matthew Pilkington – Poems on Several Occasions
* Elizabeth Thomas – The Metamorphosis of the Town[12]
* James Thomson – The Seasons
* See also 1730 in poetry

## Births

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* March 27 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English critic (died 1786)
* April 1 – Salomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
* August 20 – Paul Henri Mallet, Swiss historian (died 1807)
* November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (died 1774)
* December 6 – Sophie von La Roche (Maria Sophie Gutermann von Gutershofen), German novelist (died 1807)
* unknown dates
* Thomas Marryat, English medical writer and physician (died 1792)[13]
* Joakim Stulić, Croatian lexicographer (died 1817)
* Tarikonda Venkamamba, Telugu poet (died 1817)
* probable year – Charlotte Lennox, Gibraltar-born Scottish novelist and poet (died 1804)[14]

## Deaths

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* January 7 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)[1]
* February 9 – Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian (born 1664)
* March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (born 1692)[15]
* July 16 – Elijah Fenton, English poet (born 1683)
* August 16 – Laurence Echard, English historian (born c. 1670)
* September 14 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (born 1659)[16]
* September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate (born 1688)
* October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (born 1683)[17]
* November – Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680; killed in the Patrona Halil uprising[18][19]
* December 31 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (born 1651)[20]

## References

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1. ^ a b Jónas Kristjánsson (1993). Icelandic Manuscripts: Sagas, History and Art. Icelandic Literary Society. p. 132\. ISBN 978-9979-804-34-5.
2. ^ Rogers, Pat (2004). The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 144\. ISBN 978-0-313-32426-0.
3. ^ Jane Moody; Daniel O'Quinn (25 October 2007). The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830. Cambridge University Press. p. 217\. ISBN 978-0-521-85237-1.
4. ^ John Dryden (1800). The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations. Cadell and Davies. p. 206.
5. ^ Ira O. Wade (8 December 2015). Intellectual Development of Voltaire. Princeton University Press. p. 188\. ISBN 978-1-4008-7782-9.
6. ^ Keith T. Krawczynski (20 February 2013). Daily Life in the Colonial City. ABC-CLIO. p. 18\. ISBN 978-0-313-04704-6.
7. ^ John Clayton (25 November 2006). Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge University Press. p. 252\. ISBN 978-1-139-45926-6.
8. ^ Moyra Haslett (17 July 2003). Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 54\. ISBN 978-0-230-80226-1.
9. ^ Romeu, Pilar (2000): Las llaves del Meam loez: Edición crítica, concordada y analítica de los Índices del Meam loez de la Torá. (in Spanish) Barcelona, page 343
10. ^ Benjamin MARTYN (1730). Timoleon. A tragedy, etc. J. Watts.
11. ^ Batt, Jennifer. "From the Field to the Coffeehouse: Changing Representations of Stephen Duck." Criticism, Landry, D. and W. Christmas, eds. (47):4, pp. 451–70.
12. ^ Virginia Blain et al., eds. "Thomas, Elizabeth". The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990, pp. 1075–1076.
13. ^ Robert Druitt (1859). The Surgeon's vade mecum. .H. Renshaw. p. 763.
14. ^ Manushag N. Powell (29 June 2012). Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals. Bucknell University Press. p. 259\. ISBN 978-1-61148-417-5.
15. ^ Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah. "Lecouvreur, Adrienne (1690–1730)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Detroit: Yorkin Publications. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
16. ^ Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische (1854). Sitzungsberichte (in German). Rohrer. p. 563.
17. ^ Hume, Robert (1988). Henry Fielding and the London theatre, 1728-1737. Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press. p. 142\. ISBN 9780198128649.
18. ^ Andrews, Walter G. "Nedim" in Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, pp. 253–255. ISBN 0-292-70472-0.
19. ^ Kemal Sılay (1994). Nedim and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: Medieval Inheritance and the Need for Change. Indiana University. p. 121\. ISBN 978-1-878318-09-1.
20. ^ Ellul, Michael (1986). "Carlo Gimach (1651–1730) – Architect and Poet" (PDF). Proceedings of History Week. Historical Society of Malta: 37–38\. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 August 2017.

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