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