1724 in literature

none 1724 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1724. Events January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne.Cherel, Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917. August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.Charles James Longman The House of Longman, 1724-1800: A Bibliographical History with a List of Signs Used by Booksellers of that Period https://books.google.com/books?id=oEwZAAAAMAAJ 1936 Longmans, Green and Company 3 November 16 – An "autobiographical" Narrative of the life of notorious criminal Jack Sheppard, said to be by Daniel Defoe, goes on sale at Sheppard's execution at Tyburn.Philip Rawlings Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=Ua2JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 24 October 2005 Routledge 978-1-134-94252-7 38 New books Prose Anonymous (attributed to Daniel Defoe) – A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) – Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. IJanuary 2025 Samuel Clarke – Sermons of Samuel ClarkeJanuary 2025 Anthony Collins – Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing Mary Davys – The Reform'd Coquet (novella)Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature 2 Bonnie Blackwell Taylor & Francis 2013 9781136182365 Daniel Defoe Roxana: The Fortunate MistressDay Gary Lynch Jack The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 9 March 2015 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-4443-3020-5 950 https://books.google.com/books?id=ThBhBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA950 en A New Voyage Round the World A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain John Dennis – Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs (on Mandeville) Richard Fiddes A General Treatise of Morality (on Mandeville) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey Eliza Haywood La Belle Assemblé The Fatal Secret (fiction) Lasselia The Masqueraders Thomas Hearne, ed. – Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (died 1674) – An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion Captain Charles Johnson (attributed to Daniel Defoe or Nathaniel Mist) – A General History of the Pyrates William Law – Remarks Upon a Late Book (against Mandeville) John Oldmixon – The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil Paul de Rapin – L'Histoire d'Angleterre Jonathan Swift A Letter to the Shop-keepers... of Ireland (as M. B. Drapier) A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer (as Drapier) Some Observations Upon a Paper Relating to Wood's Half-pence (as Drapier) A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland (Drapier) A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth (last of the Drapier letters) Seasonable Advice Isaac Watts – Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences Drama Colley Cibber – Caesar in EgyptPierre Danchin The prologues and epilogues of the eighteenth century https://books.google.com/books?id=rgZaAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1993 Presses universitaires de Nancy 978-2-86480-168-9 164–167 John Gay – The CaptivesAllardyce Nicoll A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750 https://books.google.com/books?id=BHs3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA31 1927 CUP Archive 31 Ludvig Holberg – Henrich og Pernille (Henrik and Pernille)Frank Northen Magill Critical Survey of Drama: Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=W1ENAQAAMAAJ 1986 Salem Press 978-0-89356-385-1 944 Robert Hurst – The Roman Maid George Jeffreys – Edwin Pierre de Marivaux – La Fausse SuivanteChristie McDonald https://books.google.com/books?id=JljqSrUR0I4C&pg=PA363 French Global: A New Approach to Literary History Susan Rubin Suleiman Columbia University Press 2011 978-0-231-14741-5 363 William Phillips – Belisarius John Rich – The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. FaustusCaroline Eck James McAllister Renée van de Vall The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts https://books.google.com/books?id=OWIiE0XWleMC&pg=PA69 11 May 1995 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-47341-5 69 Poetry Matthew Concanen – Miscellaneous Poems Eliza Haywood – Poems on Several Occasions Allan Ramsay The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems Health Elizabeth Tollet – Poems on Several Occasions Voltaire – La Henriade Leonard Welsted – Epistles, Odes, &c. See also 1724 in poetry Births January 12 – Frances Brooke, English novelist and dramatist (died 1789) March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Scottish Gaelic poet (died 1812) April 22 – Immanuel Kant German philosopher (died 1804) June 4 – William Gilpin, English writer, painter and originator of "picturesque" (died 1804) July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (died 1803)Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb July 26 – Ji Yun (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (died 1805) July 31 – Noël François de Wailly, French grammarian and lexicographer (died 1801) October 31 – Christopher Anstey, English writer and poet (died 1805)579 Robert James Merrett Anstey, Christopher December 13 – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (died 1802) Unknown dates Samuel Derrick, Irish writer (died 1769)James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides https://books.google.com/books?id=Jg9HAQAAMAAJ 1899 John W. Lovell Company 106 Frances Sheridan (Frances Chamberlaine), Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1766)Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan The Plays of Frances Sheridan https://books.google.com/books?id=AzFY-YlRmjgC&pg=PA13 1984 University of Delaware Press 978-0-87413-243-4 13 Deaths January 1 – Charles Gildon, English critic and dramatist (born c. 1665) January 15 – George Wheler, English travel writer (born 1651)Robert W. Ramsey: Sir George Wheler and his Travels in Greece, 1650–1724. In: Essays by Divers Hands. Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. New Series, Volume 29, 1942, p. 1–38, and Nigel Guy Wilson: Wheler, Sir George (1651–1724). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004 (Online) February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685) February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648)Settle, Elkanah March 19 – Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668)de Thilo Krieg, “Johann Christian Thomæ: Geschichtsforscher und Biograph ( 1668 – 1724 ) [ Johann Christian Thomä, Historian and Biographer ( 1668 – 1724 ) ]”, in : Das geehrte und gelehrte Coburg. Ein lebensgeschichtliches Nachschlagebuch, Teil 1 [ The Esteemed and Learned Coburg. A Reference Book of History and Life, Part 1 ] ( Coburger Heimatkunde und Heimatgeschichte, Band 5 [ Local Customs and History of Coburg, Volume 5 ] ) ( Coburg : A. Roßteutscher, 1927 ), page 46 ff. July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663)Ros Ballaster, ‘Manley, Delarivier (c.1670–1724)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. August 15 – Manko, Japanese poet (year of birth not known) October 6 – Charles Rivière Dufresny, French dramatist (born 1648)y Dufresny, Charles 8 646–647 October 29 – William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)29841 B. W. Young Wollaston, William November 29 – Laurence Braddon, English writer and politician (year of birth not known) November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, Irish poet and soldier (b. 1668) probable – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, Irish poet and priest (year of birth not known) References