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1714 literature poetry
July 2020
Events from the year 1714 in literature.
Events
March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley, forms.Valerie Rumbold Scriblerus Club (act. 1714) 2009 10.1093/ref:odnb/71160 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/71160 2011-02-04
July 4 – The scholar Antonio Magliabechi bequeaths his personal library to his patron Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to serve as a public library for the city of Florence. In doing so he founds the National Central Library.The Book Collector, volume 16 1967 Collector Limited 36
July 27 – Robert Harley is dismissed as Britain's Lord High Treasurer.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/294 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 294
August 1 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain after the death of Queen Anne. This leads many writers to oppose the new Whig ministry, initiating the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment of Henry St. John. Samuel Garth publishes a poem in praise of Queen Anne; he subsequently becomes royal surgeon and is the first man to be knighted by George I.Sir Samuel Garth, F.R.S.: The Dispensary Poet C. C. Booth Royal Society Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 40 2 May 1986 125–145 10.1098/rsnr.1986.0008 11620893 1271150
August 12 – Jonathan Swift writes to Esther Vanhomrigh to tell her he is returning to Ireland. Soon afterwards, she follows.
unknown date – Moses ben Avraham Avinu is imprisoned in Halle for printing Hebrew texts with supposedly anti-Christian content, but escapes to Amsterdam.Marvin J. Heller Printing the Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750 https://books.google.com/books?id=G_uEW6sVCjMC&pg=PA72 1999 Brill 90-04-11293-6 72
New books
Prose
Anonymous
A Compleat Key to The Dispensary (response to Samuel Garth's 1699 poem)
The Court of Atalantis (attributed to Delarivier Manley or possibly John Oldmixon or others)
The Ladies Tale (stories)
The Ladies Library (ed. Richard Steele)
John Arbuthnot
A Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn
A Postscript to John Bull
Anne Dacier – Des Causes de la corruption du goût (On the Causes of the Corruption of Taste, in defence of Homer)
Daniel Defoe – A Secret History of the White-Staff (reporting allegations against Harley)
William Diaper – An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace
Thomas Ellwood – The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood
Laurence Eusden – A Letter to Mr Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne
Sir John Fortescue – The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy (written c. 1473)
Charles Gildon – A New Rehearsal (an attack on Pope, et al.)
Anthony Hamilton – Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont (translation of Abel Boyer)
William King et al. – The Persian and the Turkish Tales, Compleat
Gottfried Leibniz – La Monadologie
John Locke (died 1704) – The Works of John Locke
Bernard de Mandeville – The Fable of the Bees
Delarivier Manley – The Adventures of Rivella; or, The History of the Author of the Atalantis (quasi-autobiography)
"Captain" Alexander Smith – The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men, Foot-pads, House-breakers, Shop-lifts, and Cheats...
Richard Steele
The Crisis
The Englishman (collection and end of the periodical)
The Lover (periodical)
Mr Steele's Apology for Himself and his Writings
The Public Spirit of the Tories (attrib.: response to Swift)
The Reader (periodical)
Jonathan Swift – The Public Spirit of the Whigs
Simon Tyssot de Patot – Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé
Ned Ward – The Field-Spy
Edward Young – The Force of Religion
Drama
William Shakespeare – The Works of Mr William Shakespear (ed. Nicholas Rowe, 3rd edition)
Susanna Centlivre – The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a SecretSusanna Centlivre The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret https://books.google.com/books?id=zaFGA_-66SwC 19 December 2003 Broadview Press 978-1-55111-454-5 9
Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun – Mahomet second, tragédie
Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez – Habis, tragédieFrançois Parfaict Claude Parfaict Histoire du théatre françois: depuis son origine jusqu'à présent, avec la vie des plus célèbres poètes dramatiques, un catalogue exact de leurs piéces, & des notes historiques & critiques. Tome quinziéme https://books.google.com/books?id=3HBcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA481 1749 Chez P. G. Le Mercier 481
Robert Hunter – Androboros
Charles Johnson – The VictimGeorge Watson Ian R. Willison J. D. Pickles The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=5-s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA123 2 July 1971 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-07934-1 123
Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei – Merope (published in 1714, but initially staged in 1713)Marrone Gaetana Puppa Paolo Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies 2006 Routledge 9781135455309 1101 https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1101 7 July 2019 en
Nicholas Rowe – Jane ShoreNicholas Rowe The tragedy of Jane Shore https://books.google.com/books?id=3XZZAAAAcAAJ 1714 T. Johnson, Bookseller at The Hague
Poetry
1714 in poetry
Abel Evans – Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton
John Gay – The Shepherd's Week
Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (second version)
Nicholas Rowe – Poems on Several Occasions
Richard Steele – Poetical Miscellanies (with contributions from Pope, Thomas Parnell, John Gay, Thomas Warton, Edward Young, etc.)
Jonathan Swift – The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd
Births
January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Prussian Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
February 26 – James Hervey, English writer (died 1758)
April 14 – Adam Gib, Scottish theologian (died 1788)
May 6 – James Townley, English dramatist (died 1778)
October 25 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, French actress and dramatist (died 1792)
November 3 or December 3 – Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (died 1804)
November 13 – William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)William Shenstone The Poetical Works ... https://books.google.com/books?id=PoVKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR6 1863 James Nichols 6
December 16 (December 27 New Style) – George Whitefield, English preacher in American colonies (died 1770)
December – Jane Collier, English novelist (died 1755)
unknown date – James Parker, American printer and publisher (died 1770)
Deaths
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January 17 – Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish royal librarian and poet (born 1662)
March 3 – Hans Carl von Carlowitz, German administrator and writer on forestry (born 1645)
June 22 – Matthew Henry, Welsh Biblical commentator (born 1662)Henry, Matthew 1
June 28 – Daniel Papebroch, Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (born 1628)
July 4 – Antonio Magliabechi, Italian scholar and librarian (born 1633)
October 18 – Takemoto Gidayū (竹本 義太夫), Japanese jōruri chanter and playwright (born 1651)Gerstle Drew Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays https://archive.org/details/chikamatsu00gers limited New York Columbia University Press 2001 10–18
November 7 – Charles Davenant, English economist (born 1656)Philip H. Highfill Kalman A. Burnim Edward A. Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=N5HgNEf-oSYC&pg=PA166 1975 SIU Press 978-0-8093-0693-0 166
December 15 – Silvester Jenks, English Catholic theologian and philosopher (born 1656)
References
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