Kalpana Kalpana (Editor)

1716 in literature

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1716.

Contents

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.
  • Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand.
  • Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.
  • Dramatist Philippe Néricault Destouches comes to London as an attaché to the French embassy.
  • Ballet master John Weaver revives the pantomime genre at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London with The Loves of Mars and Venus – a new Entertainment in Dancing after the manner of the Antient Pantomimes and Perseus and Andromeda.

    • Prose

  • Richard Blackmore – Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
  • Thomas Browne – Christian Morals
  • "Mr Gay" (Francis Chute) – 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
  • 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
  • Thomas Purney – Pastorals
  • 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 (playwright)
  • The Adventures of Half an Hour
  • The Cobbler of Preston
  • Woman is a Riddle
  • Mary Davys – The Northern Heiress
  • Benjamin Griffin – The Humours of Purgatory
  • Aaron Hill – The Fatal Vision
  • John Hughes – Apollo and Daphne
  • Charles Johnson – The Cobler of Preston (political satire based on The Taming of the Shrew)
  • Voltaire – Oedipe
  • José de Cañizares
  • El dómine Lucas
  • Marta la Romarantina
  • El picarillo de España, señor de la Gran Canaria

    • Poetry

  • Jane Brereton – The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated
  • John Gay – Trivia
  • 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

    • Unknown dates

  • Thomas Gray, English poet (died 1771)
  • Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (died 1803)
  • 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 of death – Patrick Abercromby, Scottish antiquary and translator (born 1656)

    • References

    1716 in literature Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA