1703 in literature
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Events from the year 1703 in literature.
Events
- July 29â31 â Daniel Defoe is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, as part of a sentence for seditious libel, after publishing his satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November.[1]
- unknown date â Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London.[2]
New books
Prose
- Joseph Addison â A Letter from Italy[3]
- Abel Boyer â The History of the Reign of Queen Anne
- Gilbert Burnet â A Third Collection of Several Tracts and Discourses
- Edmund Calamy â A Defence of Moderate Non-Conformity (volume 1)[4]
- Jeremy Collier â Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House
- William Dampier â A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699
- Daniel Defoe
- A Brief Explanation of a Late Pamphlet, entitled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
- A Dialogue Between a Dissenter and the Observator
- A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon
- Hymn to the Pillory
- More Reformation: A satyr upon himself
- The Shortest Way to Peace and Union
- A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-man
- John Dunton â The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues (satire on Defoe)[5]
- Thomas Hearne â Reliquiae Bodleianae
- George Hickes â Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus
- Benjamin Hoadly â The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England
- Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan â New Voyages to North America
- Bernard de Mandeville â Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine
- Leonty Magnitsky â Arithmetic (ÐÑиÑмеÑика)
- Henry Maundrell â A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697
- Ned Ward â The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb (against Republicanism)
- Benjamin Whichcote â Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Drama
- Thomas Baker â Tunbridge Walks
- Charles Boyle â As You Find It
- Marie-Anne Barbier â Cornélie, mère des Gracques
- William Burnaby â Love Betrayed
- Susanna Centlivre â Love's Contrivance
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon â The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (æ¾æ ¹å´å¿ä¸, Sonezaki ShinjÅ«)
- Thomas d'Urfey â The Old Mode and the New
- Richard Estcourt â The Fair Example
- Charles Gildon â The Patriot (adapted by Nathaniel Lee)
- John Oldmixon â The Governour of Cyprus
- Mary Pix â The Different Widows
- Nicholas Rowe â The Fair Penitent (published)
- Richard Steele â The Lying Lover[6]
- William Walker â Marry, or Do Worse[7]
- Richard Wilkinson â Vice Reclaimed
Poetry
- Lady Mary Chudleigh â Poems on Several Occasions
- William Congreve
- A Hymn to Harmony
- The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas
- Sarah Fyge Egerton â Poems on Several Occasions
- Pavao Ritter VitezoviÄ â Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo (Two centuries of Croatia in mourning)
- See also 1703 in poetry
Births
- March 23 â Cajsa Warg, Swedish cookbook author (died 1769)[8]
- May 18 â Ä°brahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Turkish Sufi philosopher (died 1780)
- June 28 â John Wesley, English writer of sermons and hymns (died 1791)[9]
- October 5 â Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (died 1758)
- November 26 â Theophilus Cibber, English playwright (died 1758)
- unknown dates
- Henry Brooke, Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1783)[10]
- Charles Clémencet, French historian (died 1778)[11]
- Thomas Cooke, English writer and translator (died 1756)[12]
- John Ranby, English surgeon and writer on surgery (died 1773)[13]
- Ando Shoeki (å®è¤ æç), Japanese philosopher (died 1762)
- Gilbert West, English poet and translator (died 1756)[14]
Deaths
- January 11 â Johann Georg Graevius, German critic (born 1632)[15]
- February 17 â Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, French translator (born 1626)
- March 3 â Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher (born 1635)[16]
- March 5 â Gabrielle Suchon, French moral philosopher (born 1631)
- April 20 â Lancelot Addison, English writer and cleric (born 1632)
- May 8 â Vincent Alsop, English religious writer and wit (born c. 1630)
- May 16 â Charles Perrault, French writer of fairy tales (born 1628)[17]
- May 26 â Samuel Pepys, English diarist (born 1633)[18]
- August 21 â Thomas Tryon, English self-help author (born 1634)[19]
- September 29 â Charles de Saint-Ãvremond, French essayist and literary critic (born 1631)
- unknown date â Samuel Johnson, English pamphleteer (born 1649)