1704 in literature
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The year 1704 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Battle of Blenheim
- The capture of Gibraltar during the War of the Spanish Succession by British and Dutch troops, allies of Archduke Charles, the Austrian pretender to the Spanish Crown.
- Architect and dramatist, Sir John Vanbrugh, is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.
[edit] New books
- Joseph Addison - The Campaign
- Edmund Arwaker - An Embassy from Heav'n (re Queen Mary)
- Mary Astell - A Fair Way with Dissenters and their Patrons (reply to Defoe)
- William Chillingworth - The Works of William Chillingworth
- Mary Davys - The Amours of Alcyippus and Leucippe
- Daniel Defoe - The Address
- - The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge
- - An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born English-man
- - An Essay on the Regulation of the Press (attrib.)
- - Giving Alms No Charity, and Employing the Poor a Grievance to the Nation
- - A Hymn to Victory
- - The Storm: or, a collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land (re Great Storm of 1703)
- - More Short-Ways with the Dissenters
- - A Review of the Affairs of France
- John Dennis - The Person of Quality's Answer to Mr Collier's Letter
- Andrew Fletcher - An Account of a Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Good of Mankind
- Pierre Jurieu - Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes
- White Kennett - The Christian Scholar (attrib.)
- Sarah Kemble Knight - The Journals of Madam Knight
- Charles Leslie - The Wolf Stript of his Shepherd's Clothing (contra Defoe's "Shortest Way")
- Bernard de Mandeville - Typhon
- Isaac Newton - Opticks
- Mary Pix - Violenta
- Matthew Prior - A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux
- Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub (first 3 editions)
- William Wycherley - Miscellany Poems
[edit] New drama
- Thomas Baker - An Act at Oxford
- Colley Cibber - The Careless Husband
- John Dennis -Liberty Asserted
- George Farquhar - The Stage-Coach
- Nicholas Rowe -The Biter
- Richard Steele - The Lying Lover
- William Tavener - The Faithful Bride of Granada
- Joseph Trapp - Abra-Mule
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Soame Jenyns, poet and essayist (died 1787)
- February 12 - Charles Pinot Duclos (died 1722)
- June 22 - John Taylor, classical scholar (died 1766)
- date unknown - John Adams, poet
[edit] Deaths
- April 12 - Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, French writer (born 1627)
- June 18 - Tom Brown (satirist) (born 1662)
- October 28 - John Locke, philosopher (born 1632)
- December 11 - Roger L'Estrange, Royalist pamphleteer (born 1616)
- date unknown
- Henry Herringman, bookseller and publisher
- Jane Leade, visionary and Christian mystic writer (born 1624)
