1718 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1718.

## Events

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* 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.[1]
* Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of England.[2]
* Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.[3]

## New books

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### Prose

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* 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

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* 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

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* Joseph Addison
* Poems on Several Occasions
* The Resurrection
* Richardson Pack – Miscellanies in Verse and Prose
* Alexander Pope – The Iliad of Homer iv

## Births

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* 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)[4]

## Deaths

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* 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)[5]
* October 9 – Richard Cumberland, English philosopher and bishop (born 1631)
* December 6 – Nicholas Rowe, English dramatist (born 1674)[6]
* December 9 – Vincenzo Coronelli Italian encyclopedist (born 1674)[7]

## See also

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## References

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1. ^ University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1945). Research. p. 190.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
2. ^ "Laurence Eusden – British poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
3. ^ "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student, by S. C. Hammer, M. A." www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
4. ^ Thomas Spencer Baynes (1875). The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. A. and C. Black. p. 618.
5. ^ Keith Busby (1993). Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes. Rodopi. p. 95\. ISBN 90-5183-603-1.
6. ^ "Nicholas Rowe - English writer and editor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
7. ^ "Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria". galileo.rice.edu. Retrieved 17 April 2018.