1718 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1718.
Events
- November 1 â Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes the last of her Turkish Letters, addressed to Alexander Pope.
- November 18 â Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym. He has been released from the Bastille this year, while Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, begins a two-year sentence.
- The Free-Thinker, a Whig newspaper, is founded by poet Ambrose Philips and Rev. Hugh Boulter in London.[1]
- Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of England.[2]
- Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.[3]
New books
Prose
- Nicholas Amhurst â Protestant Popery; or, The Convocation (part of the Bangorian Controversy)
- Daniel Defoe (attr.) â A Vindication of the Press
- Charles Gildon â The Complete Art of Poetry
- Mary Hearne â The Lover's Week
- Simon Ockley â The History of the Saracens, volume 2
- Ambrose Philips â The Free-Thinker (periodical)
- Allan Ramsay -Christ's Kirk on the Green (revised version)
- John Ray â Philosophical Letters
- John Strype â The Life and Acts of John Witgift
- John Toland â Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester â Remains of the Earl of Rochester
Drama
- Charles Beckingham â Scipio Africanus
- John Durant Breval â The Play is the Plot
- Christopher Bullock â The Traitor
- Susanna Centlivre â A Bold Stroke for a Wife
- Charles Molloy â The Coquet
- Richard Savage â Love in a Veil
- Elkanah Settle and Lewis Theobald â The Lady's Triumph
- Voltaire â Ådipe
Poetry
- Joseph Addison
- Poems on Several Occasions
- The Resurrection
- Richardson Pack â Miscellanies in Verse and Prose
- Alexander Pope â The Iliad of Homer iv
Births
- February 18
- Søren Abildgaard, Danish naturalist, author and artist (died 1791)
- Robert Henry, Scottish historian (died 1790)
- April 7 â Hugh Blair, Scottish rhetorician (died 1800)
- May 16 â Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian philosopher (died 1799)
- July 18 â Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer (died 1808)[4]
Deaths
- April 27 â Jacques Bernard, French theologian (born 1658)
- May 16 â Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Norwegian historian (born 1649)
- May 22 â Gaspard Abeille, French lyric and tragic poet (born 1648)
- July 28 â Ãtienne Baluze, French scholar (born 1630)[5]
- October 9 â Richard Cumberland, English philosopher and bishop (born 1631)
- December 6 â Nicholas Rowe, English dramatist (born 1674)[6]
- December 9 â Vincenzo Coronelli Italian encyclopedist (born 1674)[7]
See also
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