1716 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1716.

Events

• April 5 – Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
• May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the regent of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans[1]
• June 21 – 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 – Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
• Thomas Browne – Christian Morals
• Francis Chute (as Mr. Gay) – The Petticoat (part of Edmund Curll's "phantom Gay" hoax)
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – Several Letters... to a Young Man at the University
• John Dennis – A True Character of Mr. Pope, and his Writings (in response to The Essay on Criticism)
• Theophilus Evans – Drych y Prif Oesoedd (Mirror of the Early Centuries)
• Amédée-François Frézier – Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou et de Brésil
• John Oldmixon – Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times
• Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution (approximate date)
• Alexander Pope – The Iliad of Homer vol. ii
• Humphrey Prideaux – The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations
• Jean de la Roque – Voyage dans l’Arabie heureuse
• Andreas Rüdiger – Göttliche Physik (Divine Physics)
• George Sewell – A Vindication of the English Stage
• Johann Georg Walch – Historia critica Latinae linguae
• Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing et al. (ed.) – Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典)

Drama

• Joseph Addison – The Drummer
• Barton Booth – The Death of Dido
• Christopher Bullock
  • The Cobbler of Preston
  • Woman Is a Riddle
• José de Cañizares
  • El dómine Lucas
  • Marta la Romarantina
  • El picarillo de España, señor de la Gran Canaria
• Susanna Centlivre – The Cruel Gift
• Mary Davys – The Northern Heiress[5]
• Benjamin Griffin – The Humours of Purgatory[6]
• Aaron Hill – The Fatal Vision[6]
• John Hughes – Apollo and Daphne[6]
• Charles Johnson – The Cobbler of Preston, a rival version to that by Bullock[6] (political satire based on The Taming of the Shrew)
• William Taverner – Everybody Mistaken[7]
• Lewis Theobald – The Perfidious Brother[6]

Poetry

• Jane Brereton – The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated
• John Gay – Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – Court Poems
• Lewis Theobald – The Odyssey of Homer
• See also 1716 in poetry

Births

• January 20 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
• March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (died 1779)
• December 25 – 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 – Yosa Buson (与謝 蕪村), 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 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet (born 1634)
• July 24 – Agnes Campbell, Scottish printer (born 1637)
• September 15 – Andrew Fletcher, Scottish politician and writer (born 1653)
• October 21 – Jakob Gronovius, Dutch scholar (born 1645)[9]
• November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)
• December 31 – William Wycherley, English dramatist (born 1641)
• probable year - Patrick Abercromby, Scottish antiquary and translator (born 1656)

References

1. "Cliffs Notes Study Guide: Candide". Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
2. "Library Architecture". The Codrington Library. Oxford: All Souls College. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
3. Margaret J. M. Ezell (14 September 2017). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: the Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-19-818311-2.
4. Harvilahti, Lauri (1996). "Epos and National Identity: Transformations and Incarnations" (PDF). Oral Tradition. 11 (1). Beijing: 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
5. Seamus Deane; Angela Bourke; Andrew Carpenter; Jonathan Williams (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. p. 830. ISBN 978-0-8147-9907-9.
6. William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.
7. Holger Michael Klein; Christopher Norman Smith; Christopher Smith (1994). The Opera and Shakespeare. E. Mellen Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7734-9016-1.
8. Cheryl A. Crowley (2007). Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival. Brill. p. 35. ISBN 90-04-15709-3.
9. Revue d'histoire du droit. Wolters-Noordhoff N.V. 1997. p. 472.