1729 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
• Polly - John Gay's sequel to The Beggar's Opera

• January 12 - Edmund Burke
• January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• September 25 - Christian Gottlob Heyne

• January 19 - William Congreve
• May 17 - Samuel Clarke
• September 1 - Richard Steele
• October 9 - Sir Richard Blackmore
• - Gershom Carmichael