1716 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1716.
Events
- April 5 – Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
- May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the regent of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans[1]
- June 21 – Work begins on construction of the Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor; it will be completed in 1751.[2]
- unknown dates
- Poet John Byrom returns to Britain to teach his own system of shorthand.
- Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior by publishing more of the poet's works without permission.[3]
- The first printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.[4]
New books
Prose
- Richard Blackmore – Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
- Thomas Browne – Christian Morals
- Francis Chute (as Mr. Gay) – 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 (Mirror of the Early Centuries)
- Amédée-François Frézier – Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou et de Brésil
- 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
- Jean de la Roque – Voyage dans l’Arabie heureuse
- Andreas Rüdiger – Göttliche Physik (Divine Physics)
- George Sewell – A Vindication of the English Stage
- Johann Georg Walch – Historia critica Latinae linguae
- Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing et al. (ed.) – Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典)
Drama
- Joseph Addison – The Drummer
- Barton Booth – The Death of Dido
- 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)
- José de Cañizares
- El dómine Lucas
- Marta la Romarantina
- El picarillo de España, señor de la Gran Canaria
Poetry
- Jane Brereton – The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated
- John Gay – Trivia
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – Court Poems
- Lewis Theobald – The Odyssey of Homer
- See also 1716 in poetry
Births
- January 20 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
- March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (died 1779)
- December 25 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
- December 26
- Thomas Gray, English poet (died 1771)
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (died 1803)
- unknown date – Yosa Buson (与謝 蕪村), Japanese Edo period haiku poet and painter (died 1784)[5]
Deaths
- January 5
- Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
- Hippolyte Hélyot, French historian (born 1660)
- January 11
- Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant writer (born 1637)
- René Massuet, French editor (born 1666)
- February 19 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet (born 1634)
- July 24 – Agnes Campbell, Scottish printer (born 1637)
- September 15 – Andrew Fletcher, Scottish politician and writer (born 1653)
- October 21 – Jakob Gronovius, Dutch scholar (born 1645)[6]
- November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)
- December 31 – William Wycherley, English dramatist (born 1641)
- probable year - Patrick Abercromby, Scottish antiquary and translator (born 1656)
References
- ^ "Cliffs Notes Study Guide: Candide". Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ^ "Library Architecture". The Codrington Library. Oxford: All Souls College. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
- ^ Margaret J. M. Ezell (14 September 2017). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: the Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-19-818311-2.
- ^ Harvilahti, Lauri (1996). "Epos and National Identity: Transformations and Incarnations" (PDF). Oral Tradition. 11 (1). Beijing: 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ^ Cheryl A. Crowley (2007). Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival. Brill. p. 35. ISBN 90-04-15709-3.
- ^ Revue d'histoire du droit. Wolters-Noordhoff N.V. 1997. p. 472.