1699 in literature

none July 2020 1699 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1699. Events January 27 – Jonathan Swift is out of work after his employer, Sir William Temple, dies, leaving Swift £100.David Oakleaf A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift https://books.google.com/books?id=581RCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 6 October 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-31552-0 33 May 4 – The beginning of the fictional Gulliver's Travels (1726). June 1 – Joseph Addison receives a grant or pension from the Crown, enabling him to travel abroad.Joseph Addison The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters. Second appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. https://books.google.com/books?id=NapDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA636 1873 H.G. Bohn 636– New books Prose Richard Bentley – A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (prev. pub. in William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning) Samuel Clarke Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and the Canon of the New Testament Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation and Repentance Jeremy Collier – A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage (see 1698 in literature) Anne Dacier (Anne Lefèvre) – Homer's Iliad (prose, first translation into French) William Dampier – Voyages and Descriptions (vol. ii) John Dunton – The Dublin Scuffle George Farquhar – The Adventures of Covent-Garden François Fénelon (anonymously) – Les Aventures de Télémaque ("The Adventures of Telemachus") Samuel Garth – The Dispensary (satire by one of Pope's mentors) John Hughes – The Court of Neptune George Keith – The Deism of William Penn, and his Brethren William King Dialogues of the Dead (in support of Charles Boyle) The Furmetary A Journey to London Gerard Langbaine – The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (cont. by Charles Gildon) Roger L'Estrange – Fables and Storyes Moralized John Locke – Mr Locke's Reply to the Right Revered the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter (see 1697 in literature) Cornelius Nary – The Chief Points in Controversy between the Catholics and the Protestants Frances Norton – Reliquae Gethinianae John Oldmixon – Reflections on the Stage, and Mr Collier's Defence of the Short View Nicolas Steno (Niels Stenson) – De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus (Preliminary Discourse to a Dissertation on a Solid Body Naturally Contained within a Solid) William Temple – Letters Written by Sir William Temple During his Being Ambassador at The Hague (edited initially by Jonathan Swift) John Toland The Life of John Milton Amyntor; or, A Defence of Milton's Life Thomas Traherne – A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God William Wake – The Principles of the Christian Religion Explained Ned Ward – A Trip to New-England James Wright – Historia Histrionica Poetry Thomas Brown – A Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, etc. Thomas D'Urfey – A Choice Collection of New Songs and Ballads John Pomfret – The Choice Nahum Tate – Elegies Drama Abel Boyer – Achilles, or Iphegenia in Aulis Colley Cibber – Xerxes John Dennis – Rinaldo and Armida George Farquhar – The Constant Couple Charles Gildon – Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate (a re-adaptation of Davenant's 1662 adaptation The Law Against Lovers) Joseph Harris – Love's a Lottery, and a Woman the Prize Charles Hopkins – Friendship Improved Peter Anthony Motteux – The Island Princess; or, The Generous Portuguese (opera, adapted from John Fletcher) Mary Pix – The False FriendBallaster R. Rosalind Ballaster The History of British Women's Writing, 1690–1750: Volume Four 2010 Springer 9780230298354 16 https://books.google.com/books?id=fmKJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR16 en Births April 17 – Robert Blair, Scottish poet (died 1746) April 28 – Joseph Spence, English literary historian (died 1768) June 26 – Madame Geoffrin, French salonnière (died 1777) August 13 (bapt.) – John Dyer, Welsh poet (died 1757) December 29 – Friedrich Ludwig Abresch, German-born Dutch philologist (died 1782) Deaths January 21 – Obadiah Walker, English religious writer and controversialist (born 1616) January 27 – Sir William Temple, English statesman and essayist (born 1628) March 24 – John Evelyn the Younger, English translator (born 1655) March 27 – Edward Stillingfleet, English theologian (born 1635) April 21 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (born 1639)John Sayer Jean Racine: Life and Legend https://books.google.com/books?id=L2TUWRuiTfUC&pg=PA358 2006 Peter Lang 978-3-03910-925-8 358 April 22 Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (born 1646) Lady Anne Halkett, English memoirist (born 1623) November 23 – Joseph Beaumont, English clergyman, academic and poet (born 1616) December 16 – Erhard Weigel, German philosopher and mathematician (born 1625) References