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1711 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1711.

Contents

Events

  • March 1 – The Spectator is founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London.
  • May 23 – Robert Harley, author, statesman, and friend to the "Tory wits," who has been involved in Anne, Queen of Great Britain's ministry for some time, is created Earl of Oxford.
  • July – After defeat at the Battle of Stănileşti during the Pruth River Campaign, Dimitrie Cantemir flees to Russia and begins writing his most important works.
  • December – Charles Gildon becomes editor of The British Mercury.
  • Robert Wilks, Colley Cibber, Thomas Doggett and Anne Oldfield form a partnership to manage the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
  • Jack the Giant-Killer appears in print for the first time.

    • Prose

  • Francis Atterbury – Representation of the State of Religion
  • Richard Blackmore – The Nature of Man
  • Pierre Boileau – The Works of Monsieur Boileau, vol. 1 (published by John Ozell)
  • Abel Boyer – The Political State of Great Britain
  • Jean Chardin – Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'orient (The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient)
  • Giuseppe Colombani – Unnamed treatise on the use of the spadone
  • Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (aka "Shaftesbury's Characteristics")
  • Daniel Defoe – The British Visions
  • An Essay on the History of Parties
  • An Essay on the South-Sea Trade
  • The Present State of the Parties in Great Britain (attrib.)
  • The Secret History of the October Club
  • John Dennis – Reflections Critical and Satyrical, Upon a Late Rhapsody call'd, An Essay upon Criticism (Dennis's counterattack on Alexander Pope)
  • John Gay – The Present State of Wit (satirical answer to Defoe)
  • William King – The History of the Heathen Gods
  • George Mackenzie – Several Proposals Conducting to a Further Union of Britain
  • Samuel Richter (Sincerus Renatus) – Theo-Philosophica Theoretica et Practica
  • Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, et al. – The Spectator
  • John Strype – The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
  • The Conduct of the Allies (contra Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession)
  • Thormodus Torfæus – Historia Rerum Norvegicarum
  • Ned Ward – The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (in verse)
  • William Whiston – Primitive Christianity Revived, vol. 1

    • Drama

  • Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門) – The Courier for Hell (冥途の飛脚, Meido no hikyaku)
  • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Rhadamiste et Zénobie
  • Richard Steele – The Man of Mode

    • Poetry

  • Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism

    • Births

  • April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (died 1796)
  • April 26 – Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French novelist (died 1780)
  • May 7 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (died 1776)
  • May 18 – Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan (Croatian) poet and polymath (died 1787)
  • May 31 – Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, German philosopher writing in French (died 1797)
  • October 12 – William Tytler, Scottish historian (died 1792)
  • October 17 – Jupiter Hammon, American poet (died c. 1806)
  • November 19 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (died 1765)
  • December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress and writer of farce (died 1785)
  • Unknown date – William Smith, English classicist and Anglican dean (died 1787)

    • Deaths

  • January 5 – Mary Rowlandson, American autobiographer (born 1635)
  • February 10 – Richard Duke, English poet and cleric (born 1658)
  • March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (born 1636)
  • March 19 – Bishop Thomas Ken, English theologian and hymnist (born 1637)
  • April 11 – François Lamy, French Benedictine apologist (born 1636)
  • May 2 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English writer and statesman (born 1641)
  • June 7 – Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (born 1641)
  • June 10 – Johannes Munnicks, Dutch medical writer (born 1652)
  • September 4 – John Caryll, English poet, dramatist and diplomat (born 1625)
  • October 3 – Richard Bulstrode, English memoirist (born 1610)
  • November 3 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born English theologian (born 1666)

    • References

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