1708 in literature

none 1708 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708. Events July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.:s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00) unknown date – Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.s-LHUY-EDW-1660 Lhuyd, Edward (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist Thomas Jones 1 March 2019 New books Prose Joseph Addison – The Present State of the War (pro-Marlborough tract)Joseph Addison and Eighteenth-Century "Liberalism" Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom Journal of the History of Ideas 12 4 560–583 2707486 1951 10.2307/2707486 Francis Atterbury – Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several OccasionsEric Parisot Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition https://books.google.com/books?id=BeUFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 22 April 2016 Routledge 978-1-317-12490-0 10 Joseph Bingham – Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, vol. 1Colin Kidd British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=I2EIlJISeUMC&pg=PA238 13 March 1999 Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-42572-8 238 Laurent Bordelon – Mital; ou Aventures incroyablesKenneth Thompson Culture & Progress:Esc https://books.google.com/books?id=GeSAAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA478 21 August 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-47940-3 478 Elizabeth Burnet – A Method of DevotionThe Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats https://books.google.com/books?id=SIwnAQAAIAAJ 2007 Department of English, Temple University 978-0-670-06320-8 95 Jeremy Collier – An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England, vol. 1Saint Peter's Church, Cornhill (LONDON) Robert WILKINSON (of the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill.) An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill https://books.google.com/books?id=1N74NrneFKkC&pg=PA2 1837 Proprietor 2 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (opposing radical Protestantism) Edmund Curll – The Charitable Surgeon Anne Dacier (Anne Lefèvre) – Homer's Odyssey (prose, first translation into French) John Downes – Roscius Anglicanus (historical review of the stage) John Fisher, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester (executed 1535) – Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (originally delivered 1509; published with an anonymous preface by Thomas Baker) John Gay – Wine Charles Gildon Libertas Triumphans (re Battle of Oudenarde) The New Metamorphosis (fiction) John Harris – Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1 (2nd edition) Aaron Hill & Nahum Tate – The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, for the Armour of Achilles (from Ovid)Christine Gerrard Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750 https://books.google.com/books?id=xQi7TiXuo28C&pg=PA15 2003 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-818388-4 15 Benjamin Hoadly – The Unhappiness of the Present Establishment, and the Unhappiness of Absolute Monarchy Anne de La Roche-Guilhem – La Foire de Beaucaire François Leguat – Voyage et avantures de François Leguat et de ses compagnons, en deux isles désertes des Indes orientales (A new voyage to the East-Indies)François Le Guat Voyage Et Avantures De François Leguat, & de ses Compagnons, En Deux Isles Desertes Des Indes Orientales... https://books.google.com/books?id=fQFUAAAAcAAJ 1708 Chez David Mortier John Locke (died 1704) – Some Familiar Letters Simon Ockley – The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt by the Saracens (vol. 1 of History of the Saracens) John Oldmixon – The British Empire in America Jonathan Swift Predictions for the Year 1708David Oakleaf A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift https://books.google.com/books?id=581RCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 6 October 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-31552-0 67 The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (together with part of the "Bickerstaff Papers") An Argument against Abolishing ChristianityEugene Hammond Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In https://books.google.com/books?id=DXGoCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA311 22 March 2016 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-61149-607-9 311 Drama Thomas Baker – The Fine Lady's Airs (first performed December 18)Thomas Baker The Fine Lady's Airs https://books.google.com/books?id=c8hnAAAACAAJ March 2006 Dodo Press 978-1-4065-0502-3 Charles Goring – Irene Peter Anthony Motteux – Love's Triumph (opera) Nicholas Rowe – The Royal ConvertMichael Caines The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume II: The Middle Period Plays https://books.google.com/books?id=fz4lDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA257 3 November 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-134-98114-4 257 William Taverner – The DisappointmentWilliam J. Burling A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737 https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg=PA46 1992 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3451-6 46 Lewis Theobald – The Persian Princess Poetry 1708 in poetry Richard Blackmore – The Kit-Cats Ebenezer Cooke – The Sot-Weed Factor (poem) Elijah Fenton – Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems William King – The Art of Cookery (poem) Matthew Prior – Poems on Several Occasions (see also 1707) Births April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (died 1754)Franz J. L. Thimm The Literature of Germany: From Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed https://books.google.com/books?id=zy8CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA21 1866 Franz Thimm 21 July 8 – Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, French dramatist (died 1775) August 29 – Olof von Dalin, Swedish poet (died 1763) September 2 – André le Breton, French publisher (died 1779)Revue des bibliothèques Association des bibliothécaires français Émile Bouillon 1909 298–299 October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss biologist and poet (died 1777) unknown dates Richard Dawes, English classical scholar (died 1766) Thomas Seward, English poet (died 1790)Dr Teresa Barnard Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=6hf3W3VwN7kC&pg=PA26 28 April 2013 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-1-4094-7533-0 26 Deaths January 1 – Johannes Kelpius, German polymath (born 1673) March 4 – Thomas Ward, English Catholic writer (born 1652)Thomas Ward England's reformation ... A poem in four cantos ... The fifth edition. With marginal notes ... as also, the author's life, etc https://books.google.com/books?id=tqBhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR13 1742 printed, and sold by Hue Firstfire 13 March 5 – Charles Le Gobien, French Jesuit writer (born 1653) March 15 – William Walsh, English poet and critic (born 1662)James Sambrook Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28620?docPos=2 10.1093/ref:odnb/28620 2015-07-15 subscription October 11 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German philosopher (born 1651)Pierre Costabel Leibniz and Dynamics: The Texts of 1962 Hermann 1973 69 October 21 Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian Baroque writer (born 1659) Christian Weise, German dramatist and poet (born 1642) October 22 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (born 1636)J. Bertrand Payne Haydn ́s Universal Index of Biography Salzwasser-Verlag GmbH 2020 576 9783846047712 November 15 – Gregory Hascard, English religious writer and cleric (year of birth unknown) unknown date – Nikolai Spathari (Nicolae Milescu), Moldavian travel writer and diplomat (born 1636)Nikolaos Chrissidis An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia https://books.google.com/books?id=dK68DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT201 10 August 2016 Cornell University Press 978-1-60909-189-7 201 References 30em