1734 in Literature - Non-fiction

Non-fiction

  • Anonymous - A Rap at the Rhapsody (on Swift's 1733 On Poetry)
  • 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
  • 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 (1734 is the date of the first publishing, as the book had been circulating in manuscript)
  • Robert Dodsley - An Epistle to Mr. Pope
  • John Jortin - Remarks on Spenser's Poems
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room (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
  • Jonathan Richardson - Explanatory Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost
  • George Sale - The Koran
  • Emanuel Swedenborg - Opera philosophica et mineralia
  • Joseph Trapp - Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things ("Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell")
  • Voltaire - Lettres anglaises

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