1713 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1713.
Events
- March 12 – Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found the short-lived The Guardian; in the same year, Steele founds another periodical, ostensibly as a sequel to it, the likewise short-lived The Englishman.[1]
- April 14 – The first performance is given in London of Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.[2]
- October – Alexander Pope announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer.[3]
- unknown date – Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th-century Cretan romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), is printed, for the first time, in Venice.
New books
Prose
- John Arbuthnot – Proposals for printing a very curious discourse... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume ("The Art of Political Lying")
- Jane Barker – The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
- Richard Bentley (as Phileleutherus Lipsiensis) – Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking (see Collins below)
- George Berkeley – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Dialogue sur les héros de roman
- Robert Challe – Les Illustres Françaises (The Illustrious French Lovers)
- Anthony Collins – A Discourse of Free-thinking
- Daniel Defoe
- And What if the Pretender Should Come?
- A General History of Trade
- Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
- John Dennis – Remarks upon Cato
- Abel Evans – Vertumnus
- John Gay
- Rural Sports
- The Fan
- Edmund Gibson – Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani
- Antoine Hamilton – Mémoires du comte de Gramont (published anonymously)
- John Hughes – Letters of Abelard and Heloise (widely published translation)[4]
- Henri Joutel – Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique (Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684–1687)
- Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
- Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe
- Jonathan Swift
- Mr. C--n's Discourse of Free-thinking, Put into Plain English (see above, Collins)
- Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
- John Toland – Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland
- Ned Ward – The History of the Grand Rebellion
Drama
- Joseph Addison – Cato, a Tragedy
- José de Cañizares – Don Juan de Espina en Milán
- John Gay – The Wife of Bath
- William Taverner – The Female Advocates
Poetry
- Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions (includes "Sally in Our Alley" and "Namby Pamby")
- Anne Finch – Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
- Alexander Pope
- Windsor Forest
- Ode for Musick
- Edward Young
- An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne
- A Poem on the Last Day
See also 1713 in poetry
Births
- January 13 – Charlotte Charke (Charlotte Cibber), English novelist, dramatist and actress (died 1760)
- February 20 – Anna Maria Elvia, Swedish poet (died 1784)
- April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (died 1796)
- June 11 – Edward Capell, English Shakespeare scholar (died 1781)
- July 9 – John Newbery, English publisher and writer for children (died 1767)
- October 5 – Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist (died 1784)
- October 25 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (née de Mézières), French novelist and actress (died 1792)
- November 24 – Laurence Sterne, Irish-born novelist and cleric (died 1768)
- December – Jonathan Toup, English classicist and critic (died 1785)
Deaths
- January 5 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
- January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader and religious writer (born 1637)
- May 20 – Thomas Sprat, English writer, poet and bishop (born 1635)
- September 18 – Samuel Cobb, English poet and critic (born 1675)
- October 30 – John Barret, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (born 1631)
- December 14 – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal (born 1641)[5]
Notes
- ^ Mary Beth Harris. Gale Researcher Guide for: Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and the Rise of the Periodical Genre. Gale, Cengage Learning. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-1-5358-5347-7.
- ^ Litto, Fredric M. (1966). "Addison's Cato in the Colonies". William and Mary Quarterly. 23: 431–449. JSTOR 1919239.
- ^ Alexander Pope (1871). The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin. J. Murray. p. 199.
- ^ Hughes, John; Mr Pope (1360). Letters of Abelard and Heloise. London: James Rivington and J Fletcher, P Davey and B Law, T Lowdes and T Caslon.
letters of abelard and heloise hughes
- ^ The Westminster Review. J.M. Mason. 1869. p. 298.