1707 in literature

1707 in literature

The year 1707 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Defoe, John Arbuthnot, and Anne's ministry, the Act of Union between England and Scotland takes place.
* Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock -- one of the most famous literary marriages of all time, thanks to their correspondence.
* Controversial publisher Edmund Curll announces to the press that he will publish Matthew Prior's "Poems on Several Occasions" - even though the rights belong to someone else.

New books

* Anonymous - "Memoirs of the Court of England" (transl.)
** - "The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker" (transl.)
* Richard Baxter - "The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter"
* Thomas Brown - "The Works of Mr Thomas Brown"
* Samuel Cobb - "Poems on Several Occasions"
* Anthony Collins - "Essay Concerning the Use of Reason"
* Jean de Beaugue - "Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse" (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
* Thomas D'Urfey - "Stories, Moral and Comical"
* Laurence Echard - "The History of England" vol. 1
* Delarivière Manley - "The Lady's Pacquet of Letters" (fiction)
* Isaac Newton - "Arithmetica Universalis"
* John Oldmixon - "The Muses Mercury" (periodical)
* John Pomfret - "Quae Rara, Chara" (poem)
* A. Phillipick Schiner - "Oration to Incite the English Against the French" (translation by John Toland)
* Jonathan Swift - "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind"
* Nahum Tate - "The Triumph of Union"
* Matthew Tindal - "A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church" (seq. to 1706 work)
* Catherine Trotter - "A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies"
* Isaac Watts - "Hymns and Spiritual Songs" (frequently reprinted thereafter)
* John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - "The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon"

New drama

* Joseph Addison - "Rosamund" (opera)
* Susanna Centlivre - "The Platonick Lady"
* Colley Cibber - "The Lady's Last Stake"
** - "The Double Gallant"
* George Farquhar - "The Beaux' Stratagem"
* Peter Anthony Motteux - "Thomyris, Queen of Scythia" (opera)
* Nicholas Rowe - "The Royal Convert"
* Nahum Tate - "Injur'd Love" (an adaptation of Webster's "The White Devil")

Births

* January 13 - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (died 1762)
* February 14 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, novelist (died 1777)
* February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, dramatist (died 1793)
* April 22 - Henry Fielding, novelist (died 1754)
* August 14 - Johann August Ernesti, philologist (died 1781)
* September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
* Charles Wesley, Church of England clergyman and one of the architects of Methodism

Deaths

* January 20 - Humphrey Hody, theologian
* April 20 - George Farquhar, dramatist (born 1678)
* June 23 - John Mill, theologian (born c.1645)
* September 15 - George Stepney, British poet and diplomat (born 1663)
* September 24 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
* December 27 - Jean Mabillon, the founder of palaeography (born 1632)
*"date unknown" - Alexandre Exquemelin, pirate author (born c.1645)
* John Tutchin, controversialist, journalist, and "literary dunce"


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