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The year 1698 in literature involved some significant events.

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The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge is formed.
The latest edition of the Bay Psalm Book is the first to include music.
In his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, clergyman Jeremy Collier attaks leading contemporary dramatists (William Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d'Urfey, and William Wycherley) for moral shortcomings in their works. Collier's book launches a controversy that dominates the literary world of Britain for the year; future editions of the book continue the controversy until Collier's death in 1726.

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery - Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Aesop
John Bunyan - The Heavenly Foot-Man; or, A Description of the Man that Gets to Heaven
Jeremy Collier - A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage (continued in 1699, 1700, 1703, and 1708)
William Congreve - Amendments of Mr Collier's False and Imperfect Citations
Robert Gould - A Satyr Against Wooing
Charles Hopkins - White-hall; or, The Court of England
John Hughes - The Triumph of Peace
Walter Pope - Moral and Political Fables, Ancient and Modern

Anonymous - The Maxims of the Saints Explained, Concerning the Interiour Life (transl. of François Fénelon)
Francis Atterbury - A Discourse Occasion'd by the Death of the Right Honourable the Lady Cutts
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet - Relation sur le quiétisme
Daniel Defoe
- An Enquiry into the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters, in Cases of Preferment
- The Poor Man's Plea
John Dunton - Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish
John Dennis - The Usefulness of the Stage, to the Happiness of Mankind, to Government and to Religion
Andrew Fletcher - A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militia's
George Fox - A Collection of Many Select and Christian Epistles, Letters and Testimonials
Charles Gildon - The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatic Poets
Charles Leslie - A Short and Easie Method with the Deists
Edmund Ludlow - Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq.
George Ridpath - The Stage Condemn'd
Elkanah Settle - A Defence of Dramatick Poetry
Algernon Sidney - Discourses Concerning Government (vs. Robert Filmer)
Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods and Illustrious Heroes
John Vanbrugh - A Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provok'd Wife, from Immorality and Prophaneness by the Author
Ned Ward:
- The London Spy (published as a periodical through 1700)
- A Trip to Jamaica
Benjamin Whichcote - Select Sermons of Dr. Whichcot (ed. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl Shaftesbury)