1711 in literature

none 1711 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1711. Events March 1 – The periodical The Spectator is founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London.Information Britain. May 23 – Robert Harley, author, statesman and friend to the "Tory wits," who has been involved in Anne, Queen of Great Britain's ministry for some time, is created Earl of Oxford. July – After defeat at the Battle of Stănileşti during the Pruth River Campaign, Dimitrie Cantemir flees to Russia and begins writing his most important works. December – Charles Gildon becomes editor of The British Mercury. unknown date – The English fairy tale Jack the Giant-Killer appears in print for the first time. New books Prose Francis Atterbury – Representation of the State of Religion Richard Blackmore – The Nature of Man Pierre Boileau – The Works of Monsieur Boileau, vol. 1 (published by John Ozell) Laurent Bordelon – Gomgam, ou l'Homme prodigieux transporté dans l'air, sur la terre et sous les eaux (Gomgam, the remarkable man transported through the air, on the ground and under the water) Abel Boyer – The Political State of Great Britain Cornelis de Bruijn – Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie (Voyage to the Levant and Travels into Moscovy, Persia, and the East Indies) Jean Chardin – Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'orient (The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient) Giuseppe Colombani – Unnamed treatise on the use of the spadone Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (also known as "Shaftesbury's Characteristics") Daniel Defoe The British Visions An Essay on the History of Parties An Essay on the South-Sea Trade The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain (attributed) The Secret History of the October Club John Dennis – Reflections Critical and Satyrical, Upon a Late Rhapsody call'd, An Essay upon Criticism (Dennis's counterattack on Alexander Pope) John Gay – The Present State of Wit (satirical answer to Defoe) William King – The History of the Heathen Gods George Mackenzie – Several Proposals Conducing to a Further Union of Britain Samuel Richter (Sincerus Renatus) – Theo-Philosophica Theoretica et Practica Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, et al. – The Spectator John Strype – The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker Jonathan Swift Miscellanies in Prose and Verse The Conduct of the Allies (contra Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession) Thormodus Torfæus – Historia Rerum Norvegicarum Ned Ward – The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (in verse) William Whiston – Primitive Christianity Revived, vol. 1 Drama Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門) – The Courier for Hell (冥途の飛脚, Meido no hikyaku) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Rhadamiste et Zénobie Charles Johnson – The Generous Husband The Wife's Relief Elkanah Settle – The City Ramble Richard Steele – The Man of Mode Poetry 1711 in poetry Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism Births April 26 – Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French novelist (died 1780) May 7 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (died 1776) May 18 – Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan (Croatian) poet and polymath (died 1787) May 31 – Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, German philosopher writing in French (died 1797) October 12 – William Tytler, Scottish historian (died 1792) October 17 – Jupiter Hammon, American poet (died 1806) November 19 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (died 1765) December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress and writer of farce (died 1785) unknown date – William Smith, English classicist and Anglican dean (died 1787) Deaths January 5 – Mary Rowlandson, American autobiographer (born 1635) February 10 – Richard Duke, English poet and cleric (born 1658) March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (born 1636) March 19 – Bishop Thomas Ken, English theologian and hymnist (born 1637) April 11 – François Lamy, French Benedictine apologist (born 1636) May 2 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English writer and statesman (born 1641)George Frederick Beltz Memorials of the Order of the Garter: From Its Foundation to the Present Time... https://books.google.com/books?id=muIxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR199 1841 William Pickering 199 June 7 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (born 1641) June 10 – Johannes Munnicks, Dutch medical writer (born 1652) September 4 – John Caryll, English poet, dramatist and diplomat (born 1625) October 3 – Richard Bulstrode, English memoirist (born 1610) November 3 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born English theologian (born 1666) References 30em