This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1704.
July – The Storm: or, a collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land, a documentary account by Daniel Defoe of the Great Storm of 1703 in England, is published in London by John Nutt.
A Tale of a Tub, the first major satire by Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London by John Nutt with The Battle of the Books as part of the prolegomena, running through three editions this year.
Antoine Galland publishes the first volume of Les mille et une nuits, the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into a European language.
English architect and dramatist Sir John Vanbrugh is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.
Joseph Addison – The Campaign
Edmund Arwaker – An Embassy from Heav'n (re Queen Mary)
Mary Astell – A Fair Way with Dissenters and their Patrons (reply to Defoe)
William Chillingworth – The Works of William Chillingworth
Mary Davys – The Amours of Alcyippus and Leucippe
Daniel Defoe
The Address
The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge
An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born English-man
An Essay on the Regulation of the Press (attrib.)
Giving Alms No Charity, and Employing the Poor a Grievance to the Nation
A Hymn to Victory
More Short-Ways with the Dissenters
A Review of the Affairs of France
The Storm
John Dennis – The Person of Quality's Answer to Mr Collier's Letter
"Dictionnaire de Trévoux" (Dictionnaire universel françois et latin)
Andrew Fletcher – An Account of a Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Good of Mankind
Pierre Jurieu – Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes
White Kennett – The Christian Scholar (attrib.)
Sarah Kemble Knight – The Journals of Madam Knight
Charles Leslie – The Wolf Stript of his Shepherd's Clothing (contra Defoe's "Shortest Way")
Bernard de Mandeville – Typhon
Isaac Newton – Opticks
Mary Pix – Violenta
Matthew Prior – A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux
Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub
The Battle of the Books
Thomas Baker – An Act at Oxford
Colley Cibber – The Careless Husband
John Dennis – Liberty Asserted
George Farquhar – The Stage-Coach
Nicholas Rowe -The Biter
Richard Steele – The Lying Lover
William Tavener – The Faithful Bride of Granada
Joseph Trapp – Abra-Mule
William Wycherley – Miscellany Poems
See also 1704 in poetry
January 1 – Soame Jenyns, English poet and essayist (died 1787)
February 12 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (died 1722)
April – Thomas Osborne, English publisher and bookseller (died 1767)
June 22 – John Taylor, English classicist (died 1766)
August 11 – James Miller, English playwright, poet and satirist (died 1744)
Unknown dates
John Adams, American poet (died 1740)
Yuan Mei (袁枚), Chinese poet, diarist and gastronome (died 1797)
January 15 – Henry Herringman, English bookseller and publisher (born 1628)
February 23 – Henry Noris, Italian church historian and theologian (born 1631)
April 12 – Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, French writer (born 1627)
June 18 – Tom Brown, English satirist (born 1662)
July 9 – Yan Ruoqu (閻若璩), Chinese scholar and polymath (born 1636)
July 24 – István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet (born 1620)
August 19 – Jane Leade, English visionary and Christian mystic writer (born 1624)
October 28
John Locke, English philosopher (born 1632)
Goodwin Wharton, English autobiographer and politician (born 1653)
December 11 – Roger L'Estrange, English Royalist pamphleteer (born 1616)
Unknown date – Barbara Blaugdone, English Quaker autobiographer (born c. 1609)
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