1716 in literature
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The year 1716 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
- Voltaire is exiled to Tulle.
- Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand.
- Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.
- Dramatist Philippe Néricault Destouches comes to London as an attaché to the French embassy.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - The History of Gil Blas of Santillane
- Richard Blackmore - Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
- Jane Brereton - The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated
- Thomas Browne - Christian Morals
- "Mr Gay" (Francis Chute) - The Petticoat (part of Edmund Curll's "phantom Gay" hoax)
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - Several Letters. . . to a Young Man at the University
- John Dennis - A True Character of Mr Pope, and his Writings (in response to The Essay on Criticism)
- Theophilus Evans - Drych y Prif Oesoedd
- John Oldmixon - Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times
- Alexander Pope - The Iliad of Homer vol. ii
- Humphrey Prideaux - The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations
- Thomas Purney - Pastorals
- George Sewell - A Vindication of the English Stage
- Lewis Theobald - The Odyssey of Homer
- Johann Georg Walch - Historia critica Latinae linguae
[edit] New drama
- Joseph Addison - The Drummer
- Barton Booth - The Death of Dido
- Christopher Bullock (playwright)
- The Adventures of Half an Hour
- The Cobbler of Preston
- Woman is a Riddle
- Mary Davys - The Northern Heiress
- Benjamin Griffin - The Humours of Purgatory
- Aaron Hill - The Fatal Vision
- John Hughes - Apollo and Daphne
- Charles Johnson - The Cobler of Preston (political satire based on The Taming of the Shrew)
- Voltaire - Oedipe
[edit] Poetry
- John Gay - Trivia
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Court Poems
- See also 1716 in poetry
[edit] Births
- January 13 - Charlotte Charke, actress, novelist and dramatist (died 1760)
- January 20 - Jean Jacques Barthelemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
- December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
- December 26
- Thomas Gray (died 1771)
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (died 1803)
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - William Wycherley, dramatist (born c. 1640)
- January 5 - Jean Chardin, travel writer (born 1643)
- January 11
- Pierre Jurieu, Protestant writer (born 1637)
- René Massuet, editor (born 1666)
- February 19 - Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet (born 1634)
- September - Andrew Fletcher, politician and writer (born 1653)
- October 21 - Jakob Gronovius, scholar (born 1645)
- November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher (born 1646)
- date unknown
- Samuel Cobb, poet (born 1675)
- Pierre Helyot, historian
- probable - Patrick Abercromby, antiquarian writer and translator
