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The year 1714 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Sir Samuel Garth, poet and royal physician, is knighted by King George I of Great Britain
- Death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, which threw many writers out of position and put them into opposition.
- Accession of George I of the United Kingdom, who brought with him a whig ministry, and notably the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment and trial of both Robert Harley and Henry St. John.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - A Compleat Key to The Dispensary (in re Samuel Garth's 1699 poem)
- - The Court of Atalantis (attrib. to Delarivière Manley, but possibly John Oldmixon or others)
- - The Ladies Tale (stories)
- - The Ladies Library (ed. Richard Steele)
- John Arbuthnot - A Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn
- - A Postscript to John Bull
- Daniel Defoe - A Secret History of the White-Staff (reporting allegations against Harley)
- William Diaper - An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace
- Thomas Ellwood - The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood
- Laurence Eusden - A Letter to Mr Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne
- Abel Evans - Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton
- Sir John Fortescue - The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy (written c.1473)
- John Gay - The Shepherd's Week
- Charles Gildon - A New Rehearsal (an attack on Pope, et al.)
- Anthony Hamilton - Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont (transl. Abel Boyer)
- Samuel Jones - Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions
- William King et al. - The Persian and the Turkish Tales, Compleat
- Gottfried Leibniz - La Monadologie
- John Locke - The Works of John Locke (posth.)
- Bernard de Mandeville - The Fable of the Bees
- Delarivière Manley - The Adventures of Rivella; or, The History of the Author of the Atalantis
- Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock
- Nicholas Rowe - Poems on Several Occasions
- William Shakespeare - The Works of Mr William Shakespear (ed. Nicholas Rowe, 3rd edition)
- "Captain" Alexander Smith - The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men, Foot-pads, House-breakers, Shop-lifts, and Cheats...
- Richard Steele - The Crisis
- - The Englishman (collection and end of the periodical)
- - The Lover (periodical)
- - Mr Steele's Apology for Himself and his Writings
- - Poetical Miscellanies (with contributions from Pope, Thomas Parnell, John Gay, Thomas Warton, Edward Young, and others)
- - The Public Spirit of the Tories (attrib.: response to Swift)
- - The Reader (periodical)
- Jonathan Swift - The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd
- - The Public Spirit of the Whigs
- Ned Ward - The Field-Spy
- Edward Young - The Force of Religion
[edit] New drama
- Susanna Centlivre - The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret
- Robert Hunter - Androboros
- Charles Johnson - The Victim
- Nicholas Rowe - The Tragedy of Jane Shore
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, poet (died 1780)
- April 14 - Adam Gib, theologian (died 1788)
- November 13 - William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
- James Hervey, the anatomist
- George Whitefield, the preacher
[edit] Deaths
- June 22 - Matthew Henry, Biblical commentator (born 1662)
- date unknown - Charles Davenant, economist, son of Sir William Davenant (born 1656)
- date unknown - Antonio Magliabechi, librarian (born 1633)
