1732 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Colonial America

 * Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"):
 * "An Elegy on [. . .] William Lock"
 * "In Memory of [. . .] Benedict Leonard Calvert
 * Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry
 * Richard Lewis:
 * "A Description of Spring"
 * "Carmen Saeculare"
 * attributed, "A Rhapsody"

United Kingdom

 * Anonymous, Castle-Howard, has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin
 * Anonymous, Collection of Pieces
 * Anonymous, The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing-Room, "By Miss W" (a reply to Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room, also published this year)
 * Robert Dodsley, A Muse on Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany
 * John Gay,Acis and Galatea: An English pastoral opera, Gay wrote the libretto for Handel's music
 * George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose
 * William King, The Toast: An epic poem, although the book claimed to be a translation from the Latin of "Frederick Scheffer", it was an original work by King
 * George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, published anonymously
 * John Milton, Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley
 * Richard Savage:
 * An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
 * Editor, A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose [...] Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets
 * Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, published anonymously
 * Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope and others, Miscellanies: The Third Volume, in fact, it was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735)
 * Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal
 * Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published

Other

 * Albrecht Haller, Attempt at Swiss Poems, German language, Switzerland
 * Heyat Mahmud, Sarbabhedbāṇī; Bengali language, Bengal Subah

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February – Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet and satirist
 * February 21 – William Falconer (lost at sea c. 1770), Scottish poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden (born 1681), German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
 * March 29 (buried) – Jane Barker (born 1652), English-born poet and playwright
 * July 3 (buried) – Mary Davys (born 1674), Irish poet and playwright
 * December 4 – John Gay (born 1685), English poet and playwright
 * Also – Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; born c. 1665), English Colonial American poet