1711 in literature
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The year 1711 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- The Spectator founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- After defeat at the Battle of Stănileşti, Dimitrie Cantemir flees to Russia and begins writing his most important works.
- William Whiston loses his professorship at Cambridge for contesting the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
- Charles Gildon becomes editor of The British Mercury.
- Robert Wilks, Colley Cibber and Anne Oldfield form a partnership to manage the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
- Robert Harley, author, statesman, and friend to the "tory wits," who had been involved in Anne's ministry for some time, was created Earl of Oxford.
- Jack the Giant-Killer appears in print for the first time.
[edit] New books
- Francis Atterbury - Representation of the State of Religion
- Richard Blackmore - The Nature of Man
- Pierre Boileau - The Works of Monsieur Boileau, vol. 1 (published by John Ozell)
- Abel Boyer - The Political State of Great Britain
- Jean Chardin - Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'orient (The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient)
- Giuseppe Colombani - Unnamed treatise on the use of the spadone
- Shaftesbury - Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (aka "Shaftesbury's Characteristics")
- Daniel Defoe - The British Visions
- - An Essay on the History of Parties
- - An Essay on the South-Sea Trade
- - The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain (attrib.)
- - The Secret History of the October Club
- John Dennis - Reflections Critical and Satyrical, Upon a Late Rhapsody call'd, An Essay upon Criticism (Dennis's counterattack on Alexander Pope)
- John Gay - The Present State of Wit (satirical answer to Defoe)
- William King - The History of the Heathen Gods
- George Mackenzie - Several Proposals Conducting to a Further Union of Britain
- Alexander Pope - An Essay on Criticism
- Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, et al. - The Spectator
- John Strype - The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker
- Jonathan Swift
- Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
- The Conduct of the Allies (contra Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession)
- Thormodus Torfæus - Historia Rerum Norvegicarum
- Ned Ward - The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (in verse)
- William Whiston - Primitive Christianity Revived, vol. 1
[edit] New drama
- Chikamatsu - The Courier for Hell (Meido no hikyaku)
- Richard Steele - The Man of Mode
[edit] Births
- April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (died 1796)
- May 7 - David Hume, philosopher (died 1776)
- May 18 - Roger Joseph Boscovich, poet and polymath (died 1787)
- May 31 - Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, philosopher (died 1797)
- October 17 - Jupiter Hammon, poet (died c.1806)
- November 19 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (died 1765)
- date unknown
- William Smith, classical scholar (died 1787)
- William Tytler, historian (died 1792)
- Kitty Clive, actress (died 1785)
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Mary Rowlandson, author of A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (born 1635)
- March 13 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (born 1636)
- March 19 - Bishop Thomas Ken, theologian and hymn-writer (born 1637)
- April 11 - François Lamy, French Benedictine apologist (born 1636)
- May 2 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, statesman and writer (born 1641)
- June 7 - Henry Dodwell, theologian (born 1641)
- October 3 - Richard Bulstrode, memoirist (born 1610)
- November 3 - John Ernest Grabe, theologian (born 1666)
- date unknown
- John Caryll, poet, dramatist and diplomat (born 1625)
- Richard Duke, poet (born 1658)
- John Norris, philosopher and poet (born 1657)
