1719 in literature

none 1719 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1719. Events March 14 – Richard Steele launches The Plebeian, in opposition to government policy on peerages.Clyve Jones Pillar of the Constitution: The House of Lords in British Politics, 1640-1784 https://books.google.com/books?id=KBidCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA100 15 July 2010 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-0-8264-2746-5 100Joseph Parkes The Prerogative of Creating Peers https://books.google.com/books?id=gNsyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA58 1832 James Ridgway 58 April 23–25 – Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London (by W. Taylor) as his first work of fiction, written aged about 60.Maximillian E. Novak Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas https://books.google.com/books?id=dz6bO8hEDzcC&pg=PA537 2003 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-926154-3 537 The initial title is The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. Defoe's anonymity is broken in September by Charles Gildon in The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr D— De D—, of London, Hosier. By the end of the year the book has run through four editions. Defoe's sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, competes with several imitators. October 30 – Defoe launches a periodical, The Manufacturer.Maximillian E. Novak Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions : His Life and Ideas https://books.google.com/books?id=dz6bO8hEDzcC&pg=PA554 2003 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-926154-3 554 unknown date – The widow of the dramatist Nicholas Rowe receives a pension from King George I of Great Britain for her husband's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia, published complete, posthumously, in this year.Rowe, Nicholas 23 782–783 New books Prose Anonymous – Zulima Joseph Addison Maxims, Observations, and Reflections Notes upon the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost The Old Whig I The Old Whig II John Durant Breval – Ovid in Masquerade ("by Mr. Joseph Gay" – part of Curll's continuing battle with John Gay)Breval, John Durant Daniel Defoe Robinson CrusoeThe Oxford Companion to English Literature Oxford University Press 1996 Drabble Margaret Oxford, UK 265 Defoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The King of Pirates Jean-Baptiste Dubos – Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture Charles Gildon – The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Mr. D—DeF--, of London, Hosier (satire on Defoe) Eliza Haywood (anonymous) – Love in Excess; Or, The Fatal Enquiry vol. 1 Benjamin Hoadly – The Common Rights of Subjects, Defended Giles Jacob – The Poetical Register (biographies of playwrights, by themselves) Peter Kolbe – Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum Nicholas Rowe – Lucan's Pharsalia Isaac Watts – The Psalms of David (transl.) Georg von Welling – Opus magotheosophicum et cabbalisticum Edward Young – A Letter to Mr. Tickell (on Addison's death) Drama Anonymous – Heroick Friendship (attributed to Thomas Otway) Anonymous – The Younger Brother Charles Beckingham – Henry IV of France Thomas Betterton – The Bond-Man Colley Cibber – Ximena (published)Poem Hunter: Biography of Colley Cibber. Accessed 10 February 2013. John Dennis – The Invader of His Country Charles Johnson – The Masquerade Thomas Killigrew – Chit Chat John Leigh – Kensington Gardens Charles Shadwell – Rotherick O'Connor, King of Connaught George Sewell – Sir Walter Raleigh Thomas Southerne – The Spartan Dame William Taverner – 'Tis Well if it Takes Francis Tolson – The Earl of Warwick: Or, British Exile. A Tragedy. Edward Young – Busiris, King of Egypt Poetry Matthew Prior – Poems on Several Occasions Allan Ramsay – Content See also 1719 in poetry Births January 17 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and dramatic poet (died 1749) March 29 – John Hawkins, English writer and biographer (died 1789) May 30 – Roger Newdigate, English politician, founder of the Newdigate Prize for poetry (died 1806) July 4 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (died 1797) July 23 – Frances Boscawen, English diarist and bluestocking (died 1805) October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, French fantasy writer (died 1792) November 23 – Spranger Barry, Irish-born actor (died 1777) Deaths January 18 – Samuel Garth, English poet and physician (born 1661)Garth, Sir Samuel April 15 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, consort and belle of the French court (born 1635)Anne Commire Women in World History https://books.google.com/books?id=RT0OAQAAMAAJ 12 December 2000 Gale 978-0-7876-4069-9 109 June 17 – Joseph Addison, English journalist and satirist (born 1672)Joseph Addison Cato; a Tragedy, in Five Acts... With Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_gLSIiP3uwrAC 1806 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row 8 July 17 – Elinor James, English pamphleteer (born 1644)McDowell, Paula. "Elinor James" in Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. vol. 29, 693-604. London: Oxford UP, 2004. p. 693. September 7 – John Harris, English writer (born c. 1666) November 19 – Charles-Claude Genest, French poet and dramatist (born 1639) November 26 – John Hudson, English classicist and librarian (born 1662) December 2 – Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian (born 1634) December 31 – John Flamsteed, English Astronomer Royal (born 1646) References 30em