1731 in Literature - New Books

New Books

  • Anonymous - The Life of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell
  • Corporate authorship - The Gentleman's Magazine
  • Nicholas Amhurst as "Caleb D'Anvers" - A Collection of Poems
  • Thomas Bayes - Divine Benevolence
  • Samuel Boyse - Translations and Poems Written on Several Subjects
  • Ralph Cudworth - A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (posth.)
  • Robert Dodsley
    • An Epistle from a Footman in London to the Celebrated Stephen Duck
    • A Sketch of the Miseries of Poverty
  • Henry Fielding - The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb
  • Aaron Hill - Advice to the Poets
  • William King - An Essay on the Origin of Evil (transl. from Latin)
  • William Law - The Case of Reason
  • William Oldys - A Dissertation Upon Pamphlets
  • Alexander Pope - An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington ("Epistle to Burlington," and known to contemporaries as "Of False Taste")
  • Abbé Prévost - Manon Lescaut
  • Elizabeth Rowe - Letters Moral and Entertaining
  • Jean Terrasson - Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians
  • Joseph Trapp - The Works of Virgil

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