1737 in Literature - New Books

New Books

  • Anonymous - A Letter from Mrs. Jane Jones, alias Jenny Diver, in Drury Lane (on the life of a kept woman)
  • Philip Doddridge - Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children
  • Stephen Duck - The Vision
  • Jonathan Edwards - A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Works of God
  • Étienne Fourmont - Meditationes Sinicae
  • Richard Glover - Leonidas
  • Matthew Green - The Spleen
  • William Law - A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors of a Late Book (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from 1735)
  • William Oldys - The British Librarian
  • Alexander Pope - Horace His Ode to Venus
    • - The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
    • - Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of his Friends (authorized)
    • - The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
    • - The Works of Alexander Pope vols. v-vi
  • Elizabeth Rowe - Devout Exercises of the Heart
  • William Shenstone - Poems
  • Jonathan Swift - A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars in all the Parishes of Dublin

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