1697 in literature

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The year 1697 in literature involved some significant events.

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George Farquhar arrives in London from Dublin.
Thomas Corneille publishes his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into the French language.
Daniel Defoe's An Essay Upon Projects suggests insurance and an income tax, among other public measures.

Mary Astell - A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II
Richard Blackmore - King Arthur
Thomas Burnet - Remarks upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (on John Locke)
William Congreve - The Birth of the Muse
William Dampier - A New Voyage Round the World
Daniel Defoe - An Essay Upon Projects (econ.)
John Dryden - Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique
- - The Works of Virgil
John Evelyn - Numismata: A discourse of medals
Jane Lead - A Fountain of Gardens
John Locke - A Letter to the Right Reverend Edward Ld Bishop of Worcester
- - Mr Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Letter
- - A Second Vindication of the REasonableness of Christianity
Charles Perrault - Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals. Tales of Mother Goose (Histoires et contes du temps passé, avec des moralités. Contes de ma mère l'Oye)
John Phillips - Augustus Britannicus
Humphrey Prideaux - The True Nature of Imposture Fully Display'd in the Life of Mahomet
John Vanbrugh - The Relapse (perf. 1696, pub. 1697)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - Familiar Letters
William Wotton - Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (setting off the English "quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns")

Anonymous ("a Young Lady") - The Unnatural Mother
Colley Cibber - Woman's Wit
William Congreve - The Mourning Bride
John Dennis - A Plot and No Plot
Thomas Dilke - The City Lady, or Folly Reclaimed
Thomas D'Urfey
- Cinthia and Endimion (opera)
- The Intrigues at Versailles; or, A Jilt in all Humours
Charles Gildon - The Roman Brides Revenge
Charles Hopkins - Boadicea Queen of Britain
Peter Anthony Motteux - The Novelty, or Every Act a Play
Mary Pix
- The Deceiver Deceiv'd
- The Innocent Mistress
George Powell - The Imposture Defeated, or a Trick to Cheat the Devil
Jacques Pradon - Scipion
Elkanah Settle - The World in the Moon
John Vanbrugh
- Aesop
- The Provok'd Wife