1716 In Literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1716.

Events

* 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
*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.
*''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.
**The first printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.

New books

Prose

*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''
*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

*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''
* Benjamin Griffin – ''The Humours of Purgatory''
* Aaron Hill – ''The Fatal Vision''
* John Hughes – ''Apollo and Daphne''
* Charles Johnson – ''The Cobbler of Preston'', a rival version to that by Bullock (political satire based on ''The Taming of the Shrew'')
* William Taverner – ''Everybody Mistaken''
*Lewis Theobald – ''The Perfidious Brother''

Poetry

*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

*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)

Deaths

*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)
*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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