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1698 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1698.

Contents

Events

  • March – In his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, clergyman Jeremy Collier attacks leading contemporary dramatists (William Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d'Urfey, and William Wycherley) for moral shortcomings in their works. Collier's book launches a controversy that dominates the literary world of Britain for the year; future editions of the book continue the controversy until Collier's death in 1726.
  • The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge is formed by the Reverend Thomas Bray.
  • The latest edition of the Bay Psalm Book is the first to include music.
  • Prose

  • Anonymous – The Maxims of the Saints Explained, Concerning the Interiour Life (translation of François Fénelon)
  • Francis AtterburyA Discourse Occasion'd by the Death of the Right Honourable the Lady Cutts
  • Jacques-Bénigne BossuetRelation sur le quiétisme
  • Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of OrreryDr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Aesop
  • John BunyanThe Heavenly Foot-Man; or, A Description of the Man that Gets to Heaven
  • Jeremy CollierA Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (continued in 1699, 1700, 1703, and 1708)
  • William CongreveAmendments of Mr Collier's False and Imperfect Citations
  • Daniel Defoe
  • An Enquiry into the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters, in Cases of Preferment
  • The Poor Man's Plea
  • John DennisThe Usefulness of the Stage, to the Happiness of Mankind, to Government and to Religion
  • John DuntonTeague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish
  • Andrew Fletcher – A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militia's
  • George FoxA Collection of Many Select and Christian Epistles, Letters and Testimonials
  • Charles GildonThe Lives and Characters of the English Dramatic Poets
  • Robert Gould – A Satyr Against Wooing
  • Charles LeslieA Short and Easie Method with the Deists
  • Edmund LudlowMemoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq.
  • Walter PopeMoral and Political Fables, Ancient and Modern
  • George RidpathThe Stage Condemn'd
  • Elkanah SettleA Defence of Dramatick Poetry
  • Algernon SidneyDiscourses Concerning Government (vs. Robert Filmer)
  • Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods and Illustrious Heroes
  • John VanbrughA Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provok'd Wife, from Immorality and Prophaneness by the Author
  • Ned Ward
  • The London Spy (published as periodical through 1700)
  • A Trip to Jamaica
  • Benjamin WhichcoteSelect Sermons of Dr. Whichcot (ed. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl Shaftesbury)
  • Drama

  • Catherine Trotter Cockburn – The Fatal Friendship
  • John CrowneCaligula
  • Thomas Dilke – The Pretenders
  • Thomas D'Urfey – The Campaigners
  • George FarquharLove and a Bottle
  • Charles GildonPhaeton; or, The Fatal Divorce
  • George GranvilleThe Heroick Love
  • Peter Anthony MotteuxBeauty in Distress
  • John OldmixonAmintas (adapted from Aminta of Tasso)
  • William Philips – The Revengeful Queen
  • Mary PixQueen Catharine, or, The Ruins of Love
  • Edward RavenscroftThe Italian Husband
  • Poetry

  • Charles HopkinsWhite-hall; or, The Court of England
  • John HughesThe Triumph of Peace
  • See also 1698 in poetry
  • Births

  • January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, Italian poet and opera librettist (died 1782)
  • January 10? – Richard Savage, English poet (died 1743)
  • May 8Henry Baker, English poet and naturalist (died 1774)
  • July 19Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (died 1783)
  • November 28Charlotta Frölich, Swedish poet and political writer (died 1770)
  • December 24William Warburton, English critic (died 1779)
  • Unknown dateAlasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Scottish Gaelic poet (died 1770)
  • Deaths

  • January 14Jacques Pradon, French dramatist (born 1632)
  • February 7Richard Adams, English theologian (born c. 1626)
  • February 11Anna Åkerhielm, Swedish writer and traveller (born 1642)
  • July 18Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (born 1663)
  • August 25Fleetwood Sheppard, English courtier and literary wit (born 1634)
  • September 3 – Sir Robert Howard, English dramatist and politician (born 1626)
  • October 11William Molyneux, Irish philosopher and political writer (born 1656)
  • December 11 (buried) – Elizabeth van der Woude, Dutch traveler and author (born 1657)
  • Unknown dates
  • Antoine Arnauld, French memoirist (born 1616)
  • Francesco Negri, Italian travel writer (born 1623)
  • Jacques Quétif, French bibliographer (born 1618)
  • References

    1698 in literature Wikipedia


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