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The year 1715 in literature involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
• Peter the Great takes lessons in maritime affairs from Hermann Boerhaave, before departing for Holland.
• The 15, a Jacobite rising. The Battle of Preston.
• The death of Louis XIV of France leads to the accession of his infant son.

[edit] New books

• Joseph Addison - The Free-Holder (periodical)
• Jane Barker - Exilius; or, The Banished Roman
• Richard Bentley - A Sermon upon Popery
• Charles Cotton - The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton
• Samuel Croxall - The Vision
• Daniel Defoe - An Appeal to Honour and Justice
  • - The Family Instructor
  • - A Hymn to the Mob
• Elizabeth Elstob - The Rudiments of Grammar
• Charles Montagu - The Works and Life of the Late Earl of Halifax
• Alexander Pope - The Temple of Fame (based on Chaucer)
  • - The Iliad of Homer vol. i.
• Jonathan Richardson - An Essay on the Theory of Painting
• Alexander Smith ("Captain Alexander Smith") - The Secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties, Ladies of Quality, and Jilts
• Richard Steele - The Englishman: Second Series (periodical)
  • - Town-Talk (periodical)
• William Symson - A New Voyage to the East Indies (pseudonymous)
• Thomas Tickell - The First Book of Homer's Iliad
• Isaac Watts - Divine Songs
  • - A Guide to Prayer

[edit] New drama

• Christopher Bullock - The Slip
  • - A Woman's Revenge (adapted from Aphra Behn)
• Henry Carey - The Contrivances
• Susanna Centlivre - The Gotham Election (unacted for political content)
• John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - What d'ye call it?
• Benjamin Griffin - Injured Virtue; or, The Virgin Martyr
  • - Love in a Sack
• Charles Molloy - The Perplex'd Couple
• Nicholas Rowe -The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey
• Lewis Theobald - The Perfidious Brother (plagiarized)
• John Vanbrugh - The Country House

[edit] Births

• January - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosophical writer (died 1771)
• September 30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosophical writer (died 1780)
• Jane Collier
• John Hawkesworth
• Richard Jago

[edit] Deaths

• Nahum Tate, poet (born 1652)
• Gilbert Burnet, the divine
• Mary Monck
• William Dampier