1718 in literature

none February 2013 1718 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1718. Events November 1 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes the last of her Turkish Letters, addressed to Alexander Pope. November 18 – Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym. He has been released from the Bastille this year, while Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, begins a two-year sentence. The Free-Thinker, a Whig newspaper, is founded by poet Ambrose Philips and Rev. Hugh Boulter in London.University of North Carolina (1793-1962) Research https://books.google.com/books?id=YocXAQAAMAAJ 1945 190 Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of England.Laurence Eusden – British poet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-Eusden Encyclopedia Britannica 17 April 2018 en Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student, by S. C. Hammer, M. A. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37177/37177-h/37177-h.htm www.gutenberg.org 17 April 2018 en New books Prose Nicholas Amhurst – Protestant Popery; or, The Convocation (part of the Bangorian Controversy) Daniel Defoe (attr.) – A Vindication of the Press Charles Gildon – The Complete Art of Poetry Mary Hearne – The Lover's Week Simon Ockley – The History of the Saracens, volume 2 Ambrose Philips – The Free-Thinker (periodical) Allan Ramsay -Christ's Kirk on the Green (revised version) John Ray – Philosophical Letters John Strype – The Life and Acts of John Witgift John Toland – Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – Remains of the Earl of Rochester Drama Charles Beckingham – Scipio Africanus John Durant Breval – The Play is the Plot Christopher Bullock – The Traitor Susanna Centlivre – A Bold Stroke for a Wife Charles Molloy – The Coquet Richard Savage – Love in a Veil Elkanah Settle and Lewis Theobald – The Lady's Triumph Voltaire – Œdipe Poetry Joseph Addison Poems on Several Occasions The Resurrection Richardson Pack – Miscellanies in Verse and Prose Alexander Pope – The Iliad of Homer iv Births February 18 Søren Abildgaard, Danish naturalist, author and artist (died 1791) Robert Henry, Scottish historian (died 1790) April 7 – Hugh Blair, Scottish rhetorician (died 1800) May 16 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian philosopher (died 1799) July 18 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer (died 1808)Thomas Spencer Baynes The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=0L9zK1pM7vYC&pg=PA618 1875 A. and C. Black 618 Deaths April 27 – Jacques Bernard, French theologian (born 1658) May 16 – Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Norwegian historian (born 1649) May 22 – Gaspard Abeille, French lyric and tragic poet (born 1648) July 28 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar (born 1630)Keith Busby Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes https://books.google.com/books?id=NsvcTtsIyRgC&pg=PA95 1993 Rodopi 90-5183-603-1 95 October 9 – Richard Cumberland, English philosopher and bishop (born 1631) December 6 – Nicholas Rowe, English dramatist (born 1674)Nicholas Rowe - English writer and editor https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicholas-Rowe Encyclopedia Britannica 17 April 2018 en December 9 – Vincenzo Coronelli Italian encyclopedist (born 1674)Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/coroneli.html galileo.rice.edu 17 April 2018 See also Bangorian Controversy 1718 in poetry References 30em