1716 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1716.
Events
- April 5 â Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
- May â Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the regent of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans[1]
- June 21 â Work begins on construction of the Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor; it will be completed in 1751.[2]
- unknown dates
- Poet John Byrom returns to Britain to teach his own system of shorthand.
- Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior by publishing more of the poet's works without permission.[3]
- The first printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.[4]
New books
Prose
- Richard Blackmore â Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
- Thomas Browne â Christian Morals
- Francis Chute (as Mr. Gay) â The Petticoat (part of Edmund Curll's "phantom Gay" hoax)
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury â Several Letters... to a Young Man at the University
- John Dennis â A True Character of Mr. Pope, and his Writings (in response to The Essay on Criticism)
- Theophilus Evans â Drych y Prif Oesoedd (Mirror of the Early Centuries)
- Amédée-François Frézier â Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou et de Brésil
- John Oldmixon â Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times
- Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution (approximate date)
- Alexander Pope â The Iliad of Homer vol. ii
- Humphrey Prideaux â The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations
- Jean de la Roque â Voyage dans lâArabie heureuse
- Andreas Rüdiger â Göttliche Physik (Divine Physics)
- George Sewell â A Vindication of the English Stage
- Johann Georg Walch â Historia critica Latinae linguae
- Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing et al. (ed.) â Kangxi Dictionary (康çåå ¸)
Drama
- Joseph Addison â The Drummer
- Barton Booth â The Death of Dido
- Christopher Bullock
- José de Cañizares
- El dómine Lucas
- Marta la Romarantina
- El picarillo de España, señor de la Gran Canaria
- Susanna Centlivre â The Cruel Gift
- Mary Davys â The Northern Heiress[5]
- Benjamin Griffin â The Humours of Purgatory[6]
- Aaron Hill â The Fatal Vision[6]
- John Hughes â Apollo and Daphne[6]
- Charles Johnson â The Cobbler of Preston, a rival version to that by Bullock[6] (political satire based on The Taming of the Shrew)
- William Taverner â Everybody Mistaken[7]
- Lewis Theobald â The Perfidious Brother[6]
Poetry
- Jane Brereton â The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated
- John Gay â Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu â Court Poems
- Lewis Theobald â The Odyssey of Homer
- See also 1716 in poetry
Births
- January 20 â Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
- March 6 â Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (died 1779)
- December 25 â Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
- December 26
- Thomas Gray, English poet (died 1771)
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (died 1803)
- unknown date â Yosa Buson (ä¸è¬ èªæ), Japanese Edo period haiku poet and painter (died 1784)[8]
Deaths
- January 5
- Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
- Hippolyte Hélyot, French historian (born 1660)
- January 11
- Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant writer (born 1637)
- René Massuet, French editor (born 1666)
- February 19 â Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet (born 1634)
- July 24 â Agnes Campbell, Scottish printer (born 1637)
- September 15 â Andrew Fletcher, Scottish politician and writer (born 1653)
- October 21 â Jakob Gronovius, Dutch scholar (born 1645)[9]
- November 14 â Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)
- December 31 â William Wycherley, English dramatist (born 1641)
- probable year - Patrick Abercromby, Scottish antiquary and translator (born 1656)