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The year 1718 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

[edit] Events

• November 1 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes the last of her Turkish Letters, addressed to Alexander Pope.
• The Freethinker (newspaper) is founded by Ambrose Philips and Hugh Boulter.
• Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
• Voltaire is released from the Bastille, while Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, begins a two-year sentence.
• Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

[edit] New books

• Joseph Addison
  • Poems on Several Occasions
  • The Resurrection
• 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
• Richardson Pack - Miscellanies in Verse and Prose
• Ambrose Philips - The Free-Thinker (periodical)
• Alexander Pope - The Iliad of Homer iv
• Thomas Purney - The Cevalier de St. George
• 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

[edit] New drama

• Charles Beckingham - Scipio Africanus
• John Durant Breval - The Play is the Plot
• Susanna Centlivre - A Bold Stroke for a Wife
• Colley Cibber - The Non-Juror
• Charles Molloy - The Coquet, or the English Chevalier
• Richard Savage - Love in a Veil
• Elkanah Settle & Lewis Theobald - The Lady's Triumph
• Lewis Theobald
  • Orestes (opera)
  • Pan and Syrinx (opera)
• Voltaire - Oedipe

[edit] 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, philosopher (died 1799)
• July 18 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer (died 1808)

[edit] Deaths

• April 27 – Jacques Bernard, French theologian (b. 1658)
• July 28 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
• December 9 - Vincenzo Coronelli (born 1674)
• date unknown
  • Gaspard Abeille, French lyric and tragic poet (b. 1648)
  • Richard Cumberland, philosopher (b. 1631)
  • Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Norwegian historian (b. 1649)
  • Nicholas Rowe, English dramatist (b. 1674)

[edit] See also

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