1713 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1713.

Events

  • March 12 – Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found the short-lived The Guardian; in the same year, Steele founds another periodical, ostensibly as a sequel to it, the likewise short-lived The Englishman.[1]
  • April 14 – The first performance is given in London of Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.[2]
  • October – Alexander Pope announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer.[3]
  • unknown date – Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th-century Cretan romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), is printed, for the first time, in Venice.

New books

Prose

  • 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 (see Collins below)
  • George Berkeley – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
  • Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Dialogue sur les héros de roman
  • Robert Challe – Les Illustres Françaises (The Illustrious French Lovers)
  • 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 translation)[4]
  • Henri Joutel – Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique (Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684–1687)
  • Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
  • Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe
  • 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

Drama

Poetry

See also 1713 in poetry

Births

Deaths

Notes

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