1722 in literature
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The year 1722 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Voltaire and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau meet and quarrel at Brussels.
- Ten-year-old Jean-Jacques Rousseau is abandoned by his father, Isaac.
- William Wood gets a patent to issue copper coins in Ireland.
- Edmund Bolton's Hypercritica is published, a century after it was written.
[edit] New books
- Penelope Aubin -The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (fiction)
- The Noble Slaves (fiction)
- Phanuel Bacon - The Kite
- Daniel Bellamy - The Cambro-Britannic Engineer
- Thomas Cooke - Marlborough (written after his death)
- Samuel Croxall - Fables of Aesop and Others
- Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
- A Journal of the Plague Year
- Colonel Jack
- Due Preparations for the Plague
- Religious Courtship
- John Dennis - A Defence of Sir Fopling Flutter
- William Hamilton - The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd Sir William Wallace
- Eliza Haywood - The British Recluse (fiction)
- Hildebrand Jacob - Bedlam
- Allan Ramsay - Fables and Tales
- Sir Charles Sedley - Works
- William Sewel - The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers
- Jonathan Swift - A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General (satire on Marlborough, written before his death)
- Matthew Tindal - A Defence of Our Present Happy Establishment
- Isaac Watts - Death and Heaven
- William Wollaston - The Religion of Nature Delineated
[edit] New drama
- Henry Carey - Hanging and Marriage
- Pierre de Marivaux - La Surprise de l'amour
- Ambrose Philips - The Briton
- Archibald Pitcairne - The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation
- Richard Steele - The Conscious Lovers
[edit] Poetry
- Thomas Parnell - Poems on Several Occasions
- Elizabeth Thomas - Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects
[edit] Births
- February 24 - John Burgoyne, soldier and dramatist
- April - Joseph Warton, English poet and critic (died 1800)
- April 11 - Christopher Smart, English poet (died 1771)
- September 22 - John Home, Scottish dramatist (died 1808)
- October 4 - Dominic Schram, theologian (died 1797)
- date unknown
- John Brown, theologian
- Mary Leapor, poet (died 1746)
- Waris Shah, Punjabi Muslim poet (died 1798)
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Henri de Boulainvilliers, historian (born 1658)
- March 11 - John Toland, philosopher (born 1670)
- August - Robert Sibbald, antiquary (born 1641)
- September 18 - André Dacier, French scholar (born 1651)
- December 26 - Jan František Beckovský, Czech historian and translator (born 1658)
- date unknown
- Johann Michael Heineccius, theologian (born 1674)
