1712 in literature
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The year 1712 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Lady Mary Pierrepont elopes with Edward Wortley Montagu.
- Fire destroys William Bowyer's printing press.
- Henry St. John is elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bolingbroke for his services in Harley's tory ministry
[edit] New books
- John Arbuthnot - Law Is a Bottomless Pit (introducing the character of John Bull) (first of a series of five tracts collected as The History of John Bull in the same year)
- George Berkeley - Passive Obedience
- Richard Blackmore - Creation
- Sir Thomas Browne - Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne
- Samuel Clarke - The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity
- Daniel Defoe (attrib) - A Further Search into the Conduct of the Allies
- John Dennis - An Essay upon the Genius and Writings of Shakespear
- William Diaper - Dryaides
- - Nereides
- Thomas Ellwood - Davideis: the Life of David King of Israel
- John Gay - The Mohocks
- Bernard de Mandeville - Typhon
- John Oldmixon
- The Dutch Barrier Ours
- Reflections on Dr Swift's Letter to the Ear of Oxford, About the English Tongue
- The Secret History of Europe
- Thomas Otway - The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
- Matthew Prior - Erle Robert's Mice (imitation of Chaucer)
- Woodes Rogers - A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope
- Nicholas Rowe - Callipaedia (transl.)
- George Sewell - The Patriot
- Richard Steele as "Scoto-Brittanus" - The Englishman's Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough
- Jonathan Swift - Some Advice Humbly Offer'd to the Members of the October Club
- - A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (signed)
- Leonard Welsted - The Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime (one of the earliest translations of περί ύπσος in English)
[edit] New drama
- Susanna Centlivre - The Perplex'd Lovers
- Pierre de Marivaux - Le Père prudent et equitable
- John Philips - The Distrest Mother
[edit] Poetry
- George Granville, Lord Lansdowne - Poems Upon Several Occasions
- Peter Anthony Motteux - A Poem Upon Tea
- John Philips - Poems
- Alexander Pope
- The Rape of the Lock
- Miscellaneous Poems and Translations
- Thomas Tickell - A Poem, to his Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal
- John Wright - The Best Mirth (hymns)
See also 1712 in poetry
[edit] Births
- March 22 - Edward Moore, dramatist (died 1757)
- June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher (died 1778)
- September 15 - Pierre Simon Fournier, type designer (died 1768)
- November 1 - Antonio Genovesi, philosopher (died 1769)
- December 11 - Count Francesco Algarotti, philosopher and art critic. (died 1764)
- date unknown
- Andrew Foulis, printer
- Richard Glover, poet
[edit] Deaths
- April 5 - Jan Luyken, poet and artist
- April 11 - Richard Simon, biblical critic (born 1638)
- April 30 - Philipp van Limborch, theologian (born 1633)
- August 3 - Joshua Barnes, scholar (born 1654)
- September 23 - Thomas Halyburton, theologian
- December 25 - William King (born 1663)
- date unknown - Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet
