1703 in literature

none July 2020 July 2020 1703 literature poetry Events from the year 1703 in literature. Events July 29–31 – Daniel Defoe is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, as part of a sentence for seditious libel, after publishing his satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November.Thomas Wright The Life of Daniel Defoe https://books.google.com/books?id=YxhAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77 1894 Cassell 77 unknown date – Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London.From 1703 to 1712 https://books.google.com/books?id=OPRbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 1809 1 New books Prose Joseph Addison – A Letter from ItalyBrian McCrea Addison and Steele are Dead: The English Department, Its Canon, and the Professionalization of Literary Criticism https://books.google.com/books?id=SGpcWk9k1p0C&pg=PA38 1990 Associated University Presse 978-0-87413-366-0 38 Abel Boyer – The History of the Reign of Queen Anne Gilbert Burnet – A Third Collection of Several Tracts and Discourses Edmund Calamy – A Defence of Moderate Non-Conformity (volume 1)Gordon Alexander Calamy, Edmund (1671-1732) 8 Alexander Gordon (Unitarian) Jeremy Collier – Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House William Dampier – A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699 Daniel Defoe A Brief Explanation of a Late Pamphlet, entitled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters A Dialogue Between a Dissenter and the Observator A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon Hymn to the Pillory More Reformation: A satyr upon himself The Shortest Way to Peace and Union A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-man John Dunton – The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues (satire on Defoe)The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 Cambridge University Press 1971 906 Thomas Hearne – Reliquiae Bodleianae George Hickes – Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus Benjamin Hoadly – The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan – New Voyages to North America Bernard de Mandeville – Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine Leonty Magnitsky – Arithmetic (Арифметика) Henry Maundrell – A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 Ned Ward – The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb (against Republicanism) Benjamin Whichcote – Moral and Religious Aphorisms Drama Thomas Baker – Tunbridge Walks Charles Boyle – As You Find It Marie-Anne Barbier – Cornélie, mère des Gracques William Burnaby – Love Betrayed Susanna Centlivre – Love's Contrivance Chikamatsu Monzaemon – The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (曾根崎心中, Sonezaki Shinjū) Thomas d'Urfey – The Old Mode and the New Richard Estcourt – The Fair Example Charles Gildon – The Patriot (adapted by Nathaniel Lee) John Oldmixon – The Governour of Cyprus Mary Pix – The Different Widows Nicholas Rowe – The Fair Penitent (published) Richard Steele – The Lying LoverW. Van Lennep The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume Two, 1700-1729 Southern Illinois University Press 1960 50 William Walker – Marry, or Do WorseAllardyce Nicoll History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 2 Cambridge University Press 2000 171 Richard Wilkinson – Vice Reclaimed Poetry Lady Mary Chudleigh – Poems on Several Occasions William Congreve A Hymn to Harmony The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas Sarah Fyge Egerton – Poems on Several Occasions Pavao Ritter Vitezović – Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo (Two centuries of Croatia in mourning) See also 1703 in poetry Births March 23 – Cajsa Warg, Swedish cookbook author (died 1769)https://runeberg.org/nfaq/0143.html Warg, Christina 278 Nordisk familjebok sv 22 February 2026 May 18 – İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Turkish Sufi philosopher (died 1780) June 28 – John Wesley, English writer of sermons and hymns (died 1791)John Wesley Life of the Rev. John Wesley https://books.google.com/books?id=G8FjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA125 1833 R. T. S. 125 October 5 – Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (died 1758) November 26 – Theophilus Cibber, English playwright (died 1758) unknown dates Henry Brooke, Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1783)Gregory A. Schirmer Out of what Began: A History of Irish Poetry in English https://books.google.com/books?id=pO0c4i7tKdQC&pg=PA63 1998 Cornell University Press 0-8014-3498-X 63 Charles Clémencet, French historian (died 1778)Samuel Maunder The Biographical Treasury a Dictionary of Universal Biography... https://books.google.com/books?id=krEVxelkYx0C&pg=PA204 1868 Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer 204 Thomas Cooke, English writer and translator (died 1756)6180 13 166-168 Arthur Sherbo Cooke, Thomas John Ranby, English surgeon and writer on surgery (died 1773)Ernest Alfred Gray Portrait of a Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter https://books.google.com/books?id=o2hIAAAAMAAJ 1952 Hale 29 Ando Shoeki (安藤 昌益), Japanese philosopher (died 1762) Gilbert West, English poet and translator (died 1756)West, Gilbert Deaths January 11 – Johann Georg Graevius, German critic (born 1632)William Nicolson The London Diaries of William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle 1702-1718 https://books.google.com/books?id=r-UgAAAAMAAJ 1985 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-822404-4 198 February 17 – Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, French translator (born 1626) March 3 – Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher (born 1635)Richard Nichols Robert Hooke and the Royal Society https://books.google.com/books?id=XLgoAQAAIAAJ 1999 Book Guild 978-1-85776-465-9 50 March 5 – Gabrielle Suchon, French moral philosopher (born 1631) April 20 – Lancelot Addison, English writer and cleric (born 1632) May 8 – Vincent Alsop, English religious writer and wit (born c. 1630) May 16 – Charles Perrault, French writer of fairy tales (born 1628)Charles Perrault Neil Philip The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault https://books.google.com/books?id=ey4pUNE8NkMC&pg=PA125 1993 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 0-395-57002-6 125 May 26 – Samuel Pepys, English diarist (born 1633)Samuel Pepys English diarist and naval administrator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Pepys Encyclopedia Britannica 22 August 2020 en August 21 – Thomas Tryon, English self-help author (born 1634)William Hone The Year Book of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men & Manners https://books.google.com/books?id=brIPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA979 1832 William Tegg and Company, 85, Queen Street, Cheapside 979 September 29 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French essayist and literary critic (born 1631) unknown date – Samuel Johnson, English pamphleteer (born 1649) References 30em