1711 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1711.
Events
- March 1 â The periodical The Spectator is founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London.[1]
- May 23 â Robert Harley, author, statesman and friend to the "Tory wits," who has been involved in Anne, Queen of Great Britain's ministry for some time, is created Earl of Oxford.
- July â After defeat at the Battle of StÄnileÅti during the Pruth River Campaign, Dimitrie Cantemir flees to Russia and begins writing his most important works.
- December â Charles Gildon becomes editor of The British Mercury.
- unknown date â The English fairy tale Jack the Giant-Killer appears in print for the first time.
New books
Prose
- Francis Atterbury â Representation of the State of Religion
- Richard Blackmore â The Nature of Man
- Pierre Boileau â The Works of Monsieur Boileau, vol. 1 (published by John Ozell)
- Laurent Bordelon â Gomgam, ou l'Homme prodigieux transporté dans l'air, sur la terre et sous les eaux (Gomgam, the remarkable man transported through the air, on the ground and under the water)
- Abel Boyer â The Political State of Great Britain
- Cornelis de Bruijn â Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie (Voyage to the Levant and Travels into Moscovy, Persia, and the East Indies)
- Jean Chardin â Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'orient (The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient)
- Giuseppe Colombani â Unnamed treatise on the use of the spadone
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury â Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (also known as "Shaftesbury's Characteristics")
- Daniel Defoe
- The British Visions
- An Essay on the History of Parties
- An Essay on the South-Sea Trade
- The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain (attributed)
- The Secret History of the October Club
- John Dennis â Reflections Critical and Satyrical, Upon a Late Rhapsody call'd, An Essay upon Criticism (Dennis's counterattack on Alexander Pope)
- John Gay â The Present State of Wit (satirical answer to Defoe)
- William King â The History of the Heathen Gods
- George Mackenzie â Several Proposals Conducing to a Further Union of Britain
- Samuel Richter (Sincerus Renatus) â Theo-Philosophica Theoretica et Practica
- Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, et al. â The Spectator
- John Strype â The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker
- Jonathan Swift
- Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
- The Conduct of the Allies (contra Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession)
- Thormodus Torfæus â Historia Rerum Norvegicarum
- Ned Ward â The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (in verse)
- William Whiston â Primitive Christianity Revived, vol. 1
Drama
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon (è¿æ¾ éå·¦è¡é) â The Courier for Hell (å¥éã®é£è, Meido no hikyaku)
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon â Rhadamiste et Zénobie
- Charles Johnson â
- The Generous Husband
- The Wife's Relief
- Elkanah Settle â The City Ramble
- Richard Steele â The Man of Mode
Poetry
Births
- April 26 â Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French novelist (died 1780)
- May 7 â David Hume, Scottish philosopher (died 1776)
- May 18 â Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan (Croatian) poet and polymath (died 1787)
- May 31 â Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, German philosopher writing in French (died 1797)
- October 12 â William Tytler, Scottish historian (died 1792)
- October 17 â Jupiter Hammon, American poet (died c.â1806)
- November 19 â Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (died 1765)
- December 6 â Kitty Clive, English actress and writer of farce (died 1785)
- unknown date â William Smith, English classicist and Anglican dean (died 1787)
Deaths
- January 5 â Mary Rowlandson, American autobiographer (born 1635)
- February 10 â Richard Duke, English poet and cleric (born 1658)
- March 13 â Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (born 1636)
- March 19 â Bishop Thomas Ken, English theologian and hymnist (born 1637)
- April 11 â François Lamy, French Benedictine apologist (born 1636)
- May 2 â Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English writer and statesman (born 1641)[2]
- June 7 â Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (born 1641)
- June 10 â Johannes Munnicks, Dutch medical writer (born 1652)
- September 4 â John Caryll, English poet, dramatist and diplomat (born 1625)
- October 3 â Richard Bulstrode, English memoirist (born 1610)
- November 3 â John Ernest Grabe, German-born English theologian (born 1666)