1699 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1699.
Events
- January 27 â Jonathan Swift is out of work after his employer, Sir William Temple, dies, leaving Swift £100.[1]
- May 4 â The beginning of the fictional Gulliver's Travels (1726).
- June 1 â Joseph Addison receives a grant or pension from the Crown, enabling him to travel abroad.[2]
New books
Prose
- Richard Bentley â A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (prev. pub. in William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning)
- Samuel Clarke
- Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and the Canon of the New Testament
- Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation and Repentance
- Jeremy Collier â A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage (see 1698 in literature)
- Anne Dacier (Anne Lefèvre) â Homer's Iliad (prose, first translation into French)
- William Dampier â Voyages and Descriptions (vol. ii)
- John Dunton â The Dublin Scuffle
- George Farquhar â The Adventures of Covent-Garden
- François Fénelon (anonymously) â Les Aventures de Télémaque ("The Adventures of Telemachus")
- Samuel Garth â The Dispensary (satire by one of Pope's mentors)
- John Hughes â The Court of Neptune
- George Keith â The Deism of William Penn, and his Brethren
- William King
- Dialogues of the Dead (in support of Charles Boyle)
- The Furmetary
- A Journey to London
- Gerard Langbaine â The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (cont. by Charles Gildon)
- Roger L'Estrange â Fables and Storyes Moralized
- John Locke â Mr Locke's Reply to the Right Revered the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter (see 1697 in literature)
- Cornelius Nary â The Chief Points in Controversy between the Catholics and the Protestants
- Frances Norton â Reliquae Gethinianae
- John Oldmixon â Reflections on the Stage, and Mr Collier's Defence of the Short View
- Nicolas Steno (Niels Stenson) â De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus (Preliminary Discourse to a Dissertation on a Solid Body Naturally Contained within a Solid)
- William Temple â Letters Written by Sir William Temple During his Being Ambassador at The Hague (edited initially by Jonathan Swift)
- John Toland
- The Life of John Milton
- Amyntor; or, A Defence of Milton's Life
- Thomas Traherne â A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
- William Wake â The Principles of the Christian Religion Explained
- Ned Ward â A Trip to New-England
- James Wright â Historia Histrionica
Poetry
- Thomas Brown â A Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, etc.
- Thomas D'Urfey â A Choice Collection of New Songs and Ballads
- John Pomfret â The Choice
- Nahum Tate â Elegies
Drama
- Abel Boyer â Achilles, or Iphegenia in Aulis
- Colley Cibber â Xerxes
- John Dennis â Rinaldo and Armida
- George Farquhar â The Constant Couple
- Charles Gildon â Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate (a re-adaptation of Davenant's 1662 adaptation The Law Against Lovers)
- Joseph Harris â Love's a Lottery, and a Woman the Prize
- Charles Hopkins â Friendship Improved
- Peter Anthony Motteux â The Island Princess; or, The Generous Portuguese (opera, adapted from John Fletcher)
- Mary Pix â The False Friend[3]
Births
- April 17 â Robert Blair, Scottish poet (died 1746)
- April 28 â Joseph Spence, English literary historian (died 1768)
- June 26 â Madame Geoffrin, French salonnière (died 1777)
- August 13 (bapt.) â John Dyer, Welsh poet (died 1757)
- December 29 â Friedrich Ludwig Abresch, German-born Dutch philologist (died 1782)
Deaths
- January 21 â Obadiah Walker, English religious writer and controversialist (born 1616)
- January 27 â Sir William Temple, English statesman and essayist (born 1628)
- March 24 â John Evelyn the Younger, English translator (born 1655)
- March 27 â Edward Stillingfleet, English theologian (born 1635)
- April 21 â Jean Racine, French dramatist (born 1639)[4]
- April 22
- Hans Erasmus AÃmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (born 1646)
- Lady Anne Halkett, English memoirist (born 1623)
- November 23 â Joseph Beaumont, English clergyman, academic and poet (born 1616)
- December 16 â Erhard Weigel, German philosopher and mathematician (born 1625)