1730 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1730.

Events

• 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]
• September/October – 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

Prose

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Jónas Kristjánsson. Icelandic Manuscripts: Sagas, History and Art. 1993. Icelandic Literary Society. 978-9979-804-34-5. 132.
2. Book: Rogers, Pat . The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia . 2004 . Greenwood Publishing Group . 978-0-313-32426-0 . 144.
3. Book: Jane Moody . Daniel O'Quinn . The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830 . 25 October 2007 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-85237-1 . 217.
4. Book: John Dryden . The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations . 1800 . Cadell and Davies . 206.
5. Book: Ira O. Wade . Intellectual Development of Voltaire . 8 December 2015 . Princeton University Press . 978-1-4008-7782-9 . 188.
6. Book: Keith T. Krawczynski. Daily Life in the Colonial City. 20 February 2013. ABC-CLIO. 978-0-313-04704-6. 18.
7. Book: John Clayton . Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion . 25 November 2006 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-139-45926-6 . 252.
8. Book: Moyra Haslett . Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings . 17 July 2003 . Macmillan International Higher Education . 978-0-230-80226-1 . 54.
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. Book: Benjamin MARTYN. Timoleon. A tragedy, etc. 1730. 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. Book: Robert Druitt. The Surgeon's vade mecum. 1859. .H. Renshaw. 763.
14. Book: Manushag N. Powell. Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals. 29 June 2012. Bucknell University Press. 978-1-61148-417-5. 259.
15. Web site: Commire. Anne. Lecouvreur, Adrienne (1690–1730). Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Detroit: Yorkin Publications. 4 April 2014. Klezmer, Deborah.
16. Book: Klasse . Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische . Sitzungsberichte . 1854 . Rohrer . 563 . de.
17. Book: Hume, Robert . Henry Fielding and the London theatre, 1728-1737 . Clarendon Press Oxford University Press . Oxford Oxfordshire New York . 1988 . 9780198128649 . 142.
18. Andrews, Walter G. "Nedim" in Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, pp. 253–255. .
19. Book: Kemal Sılay. Nedim and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: Medieval Inheritance and the Need for Change. 1994. Indiana University. 978-1-878318-09-1. 121.
20. Ellul . Michael . Carlo Gimach (1651–1730) – Architect and Poet . Proceedings of History Week . 1986 . 37–38 . Historical Society of Malta . https://web.archive.org/web/20170804132629/http://melitensiawth.com/incoming/Index/Proceedings%20of%20History%20Week/PHW%201986/02s.pdf . 4 August 2017 . live .