1716 in literature

Overview of the events of 1716 in literature

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## Events

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* April 5 – Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
* May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the regent of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans[1]
* June 21 – Work begins on construction of the Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor; it will be completed in 1751.[2]
* unknown dates
* Poet John Byrom returns to Britain to teach his own system of shorthand.
* Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior by publishing more of the poet's works without permission.[3]
* The first printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.[4]

## New books

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### Prose

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* Richard Blackmore – Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
* Thomas Browne – Christian Morals
* Francis Chute (as Mr. Gay) – The Petticoat (part of Edmund Curll's "phantom Gay" hoax)
* Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – Several Letters... to a Young Man at the University
* John Dennis – A True Character of Mr. Pope, and his Writings (in response to The Essay on Criticism)
* Theophilus Evans – Drych y Prif Oesoedd (Mirror of the Early Centuries)
* Amédée-François Frézier – Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou et de Brésil
* John Oldmixon – Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times
* Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution (approximate date)
* Alexander Pope – The Iliad of Homer vol. ii
* Humphrey Prideaux – The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations
* Jean de la Roque – Voyage dans l’Arabie heureuse
* Andreas Rüdiger – Göttliche Physik (Divine Physics)
* George Sewell – A Vindication of the English Stage
* Johann Georg Walch – Historia critica Latinae linguae
* Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing et al. (ed.) – Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典)

### Drama

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* Joseph Addison – The Drummer
* Barton Booth – The Death of Dido
* Christopher Bullock
* The Cobbler of Preston
* Woman Is a Riddle
* José de Cañizares
* El dómine Lucas
* Marta la Romarantina
* El picarillo de España, señor de la Gran Canaria
* Susanna Centlivre – The Cruel Gift
* Mary Davys – The Northern Heiress[5]
* Benjamin Griffin – The Humours of Purgatory[6]
* Aaron Hill – The Fatal Vision[6]
* John Hughes – Apollo and Daphne[6]
* Charles Johnson – The Cobbler of Preston, a rival version to that by Bullock[6] (political satire based on The Taming of the Shrew)
* William Taverner – Everybody Mistaken[7]
* Lewis Theobald – The Perfidious Brother[6]

### Poetry

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* Jane Brereton – The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated
* John Gay – Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – Court Poems
* Lewis Theobald – The Odyssey of Homer
* See also 1716 in poetry

## Births

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* January 20 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795)
* March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (died 1779)
* December 25 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
* December 26
* Thomas Gray, English poet (died 1771)
* Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (died 1803)
* unknown date – Yosa Buson (与謝 蕪村), Japanese Edo period haiku poet and painter (died 1784)[8]

## Deaths

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* January 5
* Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
* Hippolyte Hélyot, French historian (born 1660)
* January 11
* Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant writer (born 1637)
* René Massuet, French editor (born 1666)
* February 19 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet (born 1634)
* July 24 – Agnes Campbell, Scottish printer (born 1637)
* September 15 – Andrew Fletcher, Scottish politician and writer (born 1653)
* October 21 – Jakob Gronovius, Dutch scholar (born 1645)[9]
* November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)
* December 31 – William Wycherley, English dramatist (born 1641)
* probable year \- Patrick Abercromby, Scottish antiquary and translator (born 1656)

## References

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1. ^ "Cliffs Notes Study Guide: Candide". Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
2. ^ "Library Architecture". The Codrington Library. Oxford: All Souls College. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
3. ^ Margaret J. M. Ezell (14 September 2017). The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: the Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 468\. ISBN 978-0-19-818311-2.
4. ^ Harvilahti, Lauri (1996). "Epos and National Identity: Transformations and Incarnations" (PDF). Oral Tradition. 11 (1). Beijing: 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
5. ^ Seamus Deane; Angela Bourke; Andrew Carpenter; Jonathan Williams (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. p. 830\. ISBN 978-0-8147-9907-9.
6. ^ a b c d e William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 60–62\. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.
7. ^ Holger Michael Klein; Christopher Norman Smith; Christopher Smith (1994). The Opera and Shakespeare. E. Mellen Press. p. 11\. ISBN 978-0-7734-9016-1.
8. ^ Cheryl A. Crowley (2007). Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival. Brill. p. 35\. ISBN 90-04-15709-3.
9. ^ Revue d'histoire du droit. Wolters-Noordhoff N.V. 1997. p. 472.

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