Literature year 1734

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Literature year 1734
François-Jean de Chastellux (1734–1788)	Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta (1734–1787)
Society of Dilettanti	Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne (1734–1806)
Roger North (1653-1734)	Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon (1664–1734)

Events

• The Society of Dilettanti is formally founded by participants in a Grand Tour as a London Dining Society (table society), an association of collectors, scholars and nobles. The company combines festivities with an enthusiastic study of Greek and Roman antiquity. The group is initially chaired by Francis Dashwood . Its members included many members of the British aristocracy and well-known personalities such as Joshua Reynolds , David Garrick , Uvedale Price and Richard Payne Knight .
• The Portuguese missionary Manuel da Assumpção begins his work on his grammar of the Bengali language , which was written in Portuguese .
• Copies of Voltaire 's Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais are burned. In addition, an arrest warrant is issued to arrest the author.
• Le Cabinet du Philosophe , a new periodical from Pierre de Marivaux , got off to a less than successful start.

New releases

prose

Jonathan Swift published A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed in 1734

• Jonathan Swift - A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
• Robert Tatersal - The Bricklayer's Miscellany

drama

Carlo Goldonis Belisario premieres in 1734

• Henry Carey , as Benjamin Bounce
  • Chrononhotonthologos
  • The Dragon of Wantley (Burlesque)
• Henry Fielding
  • Don Quixote in England
  • The Intriguing Chambermaid
• Carlo Goldoni - Belisario
• James Miller - The Mother-in-Law (adaptation of Molières Le Malade imaginaire and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac )
• James Ralph - The Cornish Squire
• António José da Silva - Esopaida
• James Thomson - The Tragedy of Sophonisba

Poetry

• Anonymous - A Rap at the Rhapsody (in response to Jonathan Swift's On Poetry )
• Jean Adam - Miscellany Poems
• John Arbuthnot and other authors - Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself , published anonymously.
• Mary Barber - Poems on Several Occasions
• Isaac Hawkins Browne , the Elder - On Design and Beauty , published anonymously.
• Robert Dodsley - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
• Stephen Duck - Truth and Falsehood

Alexander Pope published his last epistles in 1734

• William Dunkin :
  • The Lover's Web
  • The Poet's Prayer
• Jean-Baptiste Gresset - Vert-Vert , (according to some sources as early as 1733)
• Richard Lewis (poet) - Upon Prince Madoc's Expedition to the Country now called America, in the 12th Century. a poetic tale of a Welshman
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room , published anonymously. (See also Jonathan Swift 's The Lady's Dressing Room. 1732).
• Alexander Pope :
  • Published to Epistle to Lord Cobham , 1734, although the book title indicates 1733.
  • An Essay on Man , fourth and final epistle. All four episteles (1-3 in 1733) were published together anonymously in 1734.
  • The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace including the Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace , which appeared separately this year
  • Sober Advice From Horace , published anonymously., Parallel text in English and Latin.
• James Thomson - Liberty , dedicated to the Prince of Wales.
• Jonathan Swift - A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed , published anonymously.
• Robert Tatersal - The Bricklayer's Miscellany; or, Poems on Several Subjects
• Joseph Trapp - Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things , published anonymously. In four parts ( Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell ), the series continued until 1735.

Non-fiction

Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, et les fruits , Amsterdam 1734, Zucker-Museum Berlin

• Anonymous - A Rap at the Rhapsody (based on Swifts On Poetry , 1733)
• Anonymous - Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, et les fruits
• Jean Adam - Miscellany Poems
• Joseph Addison - A Discourse on Antient and Modern Learning (posth.)
• John Arbuthnot - Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself
• Francis Atterbury - Sermons
• George Berkeley - The Analyst
• Thomas Birch (Ed.): A general dictionary historical and critical. (10 vols. To 1741)
• Henry Brooke - Design and Beauty: an Epistle
• Isaac Hawkins Browne - On Design and Beauty
• Dimitrie Cantemir - History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire
• Robert Dodsley - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
• John Jortin - Remarks on Spenser's Poems

Frontispiece to the treatise on the chewing and smacking of the dead in graves by Michael Ranft , 1734

• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing Room (based on Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room")
• Alexander Pope
  • Essay on Man
  • An Epistle to Lord Cobham ("Moral Epistle I")
  • The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
  • Sober Advice from Horace
• Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz - Mémoires
• Michael Ranft - treatise on the chewing and smacking of the dead in graves, in which the true nature of those hungarian vampires and bloodsuckers is shown, and all writings that have come to light on this matter are reviewed
• Jonathan Richardson - Explanatory Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost
• George Sale - The Koran
• Emanuel Swedenborg - Opera philosophica et mineralia
• Aegidius Tschudi - Chronicon Helveticum First Volume. Edited posthumously by Johann Rudolf Iselin (second volume, 1736 )
• Joseph Trapp - Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things ("Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell")
• Voltaire - Lettres anglaises

Born

Allard Hulshoff (1734–1795)

Portrait of Ueda Akinaris (1734–1809) by Kōga Bunrei , around 1800

Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow (1734–1805)

Johann August Nösselt (1734–1807)

• January 10 : Fleury Mesplet , French printer and publisher († 1794 )
• 0February 5 : Johann Georg Gottlob Schwarz , German Protestant theologian († 1788 )
• February 20 : Allard Hulshoff , Dutch Reformed theologian († 1795 )
• 0March 9 : Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta Spanish poet and critic († 1787 )
• March 30 : Christian Gottlieb Bergmann , German lawyer and mayor of Zittau († 1822 )
• 0May 2 : Johann August Nösselt , German Protestant theologian († 1807 )
• 0May 5 : François-Jean de Chastellux , French military and writer († 1788 )
• May 15 : Dmitri Alexejewitsch Golitsyn , Russian diplomat and mineralogist and author from the Galitzin Princely House († 1803 )
• May 27 : Philipp Ernst Spieß , German historian, archivist, officer and publicist († 1794 )
• July 25 : Ueda Akinari , Japanese writer and philologist († 1809 )
• August 20 : Karl Gottlob Just , German lawyer and mayor of Zittau († 1792 )
• October 11 : Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow , Prussian landowner and educator at the time of the Enlightenment, best known for his school reform in the spirit of philanthropism († 1805 )
• October 23 : Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne , French novelist and pioneer of verism and naturalism († 1806 )
• November 11 : František Martin Pelcl , Czech writer, historian and philologist († 1801 )
• December 17 : Johann Ludwig Schulze , German philologist and Protestant theologian († 1799 )
• December 21 : Manuel do Nascimento , Portuguese poet, religious and translator († 1819 )
• December 31 : Claude-Joseph Dorat , French writer and an opponent of the philosophy of the Enlightenment († 1780 )
• exact date unknown: Catharina Ahlgren , Swedish writer († 1800 )
• exact date unknown: Robert Aitken , printer and publisher († 1802 )
• exact date unknown: Friedrich August Cartheuser , German chemist and pharmacist († 1796 )
• exact date unknown: Sakurada Jisuke I. , Japanese kabuki author († 1806 )

Died

• 0January 6 : John Dennis , English playwright and literary critic (* 1657 )
• February 24th : Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier , French author of fairy tales (* 1664 )
• 0March 1 : Roger North , English lawyer, biographer and music theorist (* 1653 )
• March 12th : Antonius Schultingh , Dutch lawyer and humanist (* 1659 )
• April 25 : Johann Conrad Dippel , English theologian (* 1673 )
• May: Richard Cantillon , French economist (* 1680 )
• June 25 : Johann Friedrich Riederer , German writer (* 1678 )
• July 12 : Johann Gottlieb Olearius , German legal scholar and historian (* 1684 )
• 0August 9 : Georg Sigismund Green the Elder , German Lutheran theologian (* 1673 )
• September 17th : Thomas Fuller , English grammarian (* 1654 )
• October: Thomas Lloyd , English lexicographer (* around 1673)
• October 18 : James Moore Smythe , English playwright (* 1702 )
• without exact date: Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon , French writer (* 1664 )

Web links

Commons : Literary Works of 1734  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Austrian newspapers from 1734 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jason M. Kelly: The Society of Dilettanti: Archeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment. Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London 2009.
2. ↑ José Paz Rodríguez: Presença de Portugal em Bengala. On: www.pglingua.org. March 4, 2009. Accessed November 26, 2012.
3. ↑ Lettres philosophiques. Derniers écrits sur Dieu . Presentation by Gerhardt Stenger, Flammarion, Paris 2006.
4. ↑ Marie-Hélène Cotoni: Dialogue et dans les didactique périodiques de Marivaux: la place du journaliste. ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Loxias, Loxias 4, mis en ligne le March 15, 2004. Accessed November 26, 2012.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q} Michael Cox (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
6. ^ Daniel S. Burt: The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 0-618-16821-4 , accessed from Google Books