1717 in literature
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The year 1717 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and is banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans. While in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus").
- The Irish poet Hugh Mac Cuirtin (or Aodh Buidhe Mac Cuirtin) is imprisoned in Dublin.
[edit] New books
- Corporate authorship - Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Elias Ashmole - Memoirs
- John Durant Breval - The Art of Dress
- Susanna Centlivre - An Epistle to the King of Sweden
- Anthony Collins - A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty
- John Dennis - Remarks upon Mr Pope's Translation of Homer
- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon - Poems by the Earl of Roscomon
- Elijah Fenton - Poems on Several Occasions
- John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - Three Hours After Marriage
- Benjamin Hoadly - The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church of Christ (part of the Bangorian Controversy
- Jane Holt - A Fairy Tale
- William Law - The Bishop Bangor's Late Sermon (answer to Hoadly)
- Thomas Parnell - Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice
- Alexander Pope - The Iliad of Homer vol. iii
- - The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (with new material)
- Matthew Prior - The Dove
- Thomas Purney - A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral (part of the Pope/Philips quarrel)
- Richard Savage - The Convocation; or, A Battle of Pamphlets (satire on the Bangorian Controversy)
- Thomas Tickell - An Epistle from a Lady in England
- John Toland - The State-Anatomy of Great Britain
- Thomas Traherne - Hexameron (on creationism)
- Joseph Trapp - The Real Nature of the Church or Kingdom of Christ (part of the Bangorian Controversy)
- Ned Ward - British Wonders
- - A Collection of Historical and State Poems
- Leonard Welsted - Palaemon to Caelia, at Bath
[edit] New drama
- John Durant Breval (as "Mr. Gay") - The Confederates (attack on John Gay, Alexander Pope, and the other members of the Scribblerus Club)
- Christopher Bullock - The Perjuror
- Susanna Centlivre - The Cruel Gift
- Benjamin Griffin - The Masquerade
- Charles Johnson - The Sultaness
- Delarivière Manley - Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain
- William Taverner - The Artful Husband
- - The Artful Wife
[edit] Births
- February 14 - Richard Owen Cambridge, author (died 1802)
- February 19 - David Garrick, actor (died 1779)
- September 24 - Horace Walpole, English writer (died 1797)
- November 16 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist (died 1783)
- December 9 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, art historian (died 1768)
[edit] Deaths
- March 3 - Pierre Allix, French religious writer (born 1641)
- June 9 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, mystic, author (born 1648)
- date unknown - William Diaper, poet (born 1685)
