1732 in literature

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The year 1732 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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The first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, by Benjamin Franklin, is published.
Alexander Pope begins Essay on Man, with the first two "Epistles: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (1) "The Universe" and (2) "Himself as an Individual" (the 3rd/4th were written in 1733/1744).
The first Royal Opera House at Covent Garden opens on December 7.

Anonymous - Castle-Howard
- - The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing Room (reply to Swift)
- - A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose . . . on Occasion of the Dunciad
Corporate authorship - the London Magazine (periodical)
George Berkeley - Alciphron
Johann Jakob Bodmer - translation of John Milton's Paradise Lost into German prose
Elizabeth Boyd - The Happy-Unfortunate
Mary Davys - The False Friend (fiction)
Philip Doddridge - Sermons on the Religious Education of Children
Robert Dodsley - A Muse in Livery
George Granville, Lord Lansdowne - The Genuine Works
John Horsley - Britannia Romana, or The Roman Antiquities of Britain
William King - The Toast
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - The Progress of Love
John Milton - Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
Daniel Neal - The History of the Puritans or Protestant Non-Conformists
Richard Savage - An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
Jonathan Swift - The Lady's Dressing Room
- - The Grand Question Debated
- with Pope and others - Miscellanies: The Third Volume
Isaac Watts - A Short View of the Whole Scripture History
Leonard Welsted - Of Dulness and Scandal (answer to The Dunciad)
Gilbert West - Stowe

Henry Carey - Amelia (opera)
- - The Disappointment
- - Terminta
Henry Fielding - The Lottery
- - The Modern Husband
- - The Covent-Garden Tragedy
- - The Old Debauchees
- - The Mock Doctor
John Gay (with Alexander Pope) - Acis and Galatea (opera by Handel)
John Kelly - The Married Philosopher