1716 in literature

1716 in literature

The year 1716 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
*Voltaire is exiled to Tulle.
*Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand.
*Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.
*Dramatist Philippe Néricault Destouches comes to London as an attaché to the French embassy.

New books

* Anonymous - "The Hisotry of Gil Blas of Santillane"
** - "Kangxi Dictionary"
* Richard Blackmore - "Essays upon Several Subjects" vol. i
* Jane Brereton - "The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated"
* Thomas Browne - "Christian Morals"
* "Mr Gay" (Francis Chute) - "The Petticoat" (part of Edmund Curll's "phantom Gay" hoax)
* Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - "Several Letters. . . to a Young Man at the University"
* John Dennis - "A True Character of Mr Pope, and his Writings" (in response to "The Essay on Criticism")
*Theophilus Evans - "Drych y Prif Oesoedd"
* John Oldmixon - "Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times"
* Alexander Pope - "The Iliad of Homer" vol. ii
* Humphrey Prideaux - "The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations"
* Thomas Purney - "Pastorals"
* George Sewell - "A Vindication of the English Stage"
* Lewis Theobald - "The Odyssey of Homer"
* Johann Georg Walch - "Historia critica Latinae linguae"

New drama

* Joseph Addison - "The Drummer"
* Barton Booth - "The Death of Dido"
* Christopher Bullock
**"The Adventures of Half an Hour"
**"The Cobbler of Preston"
**"Woman is a Riddle"
* Mary Davys - "The Northern Heiress"
* Benjamin Griffin - "The Humours of Purgatory"
* Aaron Hill - "The Fatal Vision"
* John Hughes - "Apollo and Daphne"
* Charles Johnson - "The Cobler of Preston" (political satire based on "The Taming of the Shrew")
* Voltaire - "Oedipe"

Poetry

* John Gay - "Trivia"
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - "Court Poems"
*"See also 1716 in poetry"

Births

*January 13 - Charlotte Charke, actress, novelist and dramatist (died 1760)
*January 20 - Jean Jacques Barthelemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
*December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
*December 26
**Thomas Gray (died 1771)
**Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (died 1803)

Deaths

*January 1 - William Wycherley, dramatist (born c.1640)
*January 5 - Jean Chardin, travel writer (born 1643)
*January 11
** Pierre Jurieu, Protestant writer (born 1637)
** René Massuet, editor (born 1666)
*February 19 - Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet (born 1634)
*September - Andrew Fletcher, politician and writer (born 1653)
*October 21 - Jakob Gronovius, scholar (born 1645)
*November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher (born 1646)
*December 13 - Thomas Rymer, historiographer (born 1713)
*"date unknown"
**Samuel Cobb, poet (born 1675)
**Pierre Helyot, historian
*"probable" - Patrick Abercromby, antiquarian writer and translator


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