1713 in literature
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The year 1713 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Scriblerus Club is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, and Henry St. John. They meet at John Arbuthnot's house.
- Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found The Guardian, and Steele founds another short-lived periodical, The Englishman.
[edit] New books
- 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 (vs. Collins)
- George Berkeley - Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
- Henry Carey - Poems on Several Occasions (with "Sally in Our Alley" and Namby Pamby)
- 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 transl.)[1]
- Thomas Parnell - An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
- 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
[edit] New drama
- Joseph Addison - Cato
- John Gay - The Wife of Bath
- Charles Johnson - The Successful Pyrate (set off a minor furore over the morality of portraying pirates on stage; actually a satire)
- William Taverner - The Female Advocates
[edit] Poetry
- Anne Finch - Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
- Alexander Pope
- Windsor Fores
- Ode for Musick
- Edward Young
- An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne
- A Poem on the Last Day
See also 1713 in poetry
[edit] Births
- April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer (died 1796)
- November 24 - Laurence Sterne - an Irish-born novelist (died 1768)
- Jonathan Toup - English classical scholar and critic (died 1785)
- Denis Diderot, encyclopedist
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Pierre Jurieu (born 1637)
- May 20 - Thomas Sprat, clergyman and writer (born 1635)
- December 14 - Thomas Rymer, historiographer (born 1641)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hughes, John; Mr Pope (MCCCLX). Letters of Abelard and Heloise. London: James Rivington and J Fletcher, P Davey and B Law, T Lowdes and T Caslon. http://books.google.com/books?id=6KAGAAAAQAAJ&dq=letters+of+abelard+and+heloise+hughes&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=yUPXeCVUq5&sig=SbS8tKS2Gx9MF5nDEeGKh2xMe3w#PPP7,M1.
