title: 1730 in literature
text: # 1730 in literature
  
  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.
  * January 8 – The Grub Street Journal is launched in London, with Richard Russel and John Martyn as editors. It lasts for 418 issues.
  * April 17 – Pietro Metastasio arrives in Vienna, where he settles permanently.
  * September/October – Colley Cibber becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of Great Britain, in succession to Laurence Eusden.
  * December 11 – Voltaire's Brutus is finally staged.
  * 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.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Joseph Addison – The Evidences of the Christian Religion (posthumous)
  * John Bancks – The Weaver's Miscellany
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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 (including "The Thresher's Labour")
  * Matthew Pilkington – Poems on Several Occasions
  * Elizabeth Thomas – The Metamorphosis of the Town
  * 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)
     * Joakim Stulić, Croatian lexicographer (died 1817)
     * Tarikonda Venkamamba, Telugu poet (died 1817)
  * probable year – Charlotte Lennox, Gibraltar-born Scottish novelist and poet (died 1804)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 7 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar (born 1663)
  * February 9 – Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian (born 1664)
  * March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (born 1692)
  * 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)
  * September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate (born 1688)
  * October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (born 1683)
  * November – Nedîm, Ottoman poet (born c. 1680; killed in the Patrona Halil uprising
  * December 31 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (born 1651)
  