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1718 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1718.

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Events

  • November 1 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes the last of her Turkish Letters, addressed to Alexander Pope.
  • November 18 – Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym. He has been released from the Bastille this year, while Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, begins a two-year sentence.
  • The Freethinker (newspaper) is founded by Ambrose Philips and Hugh Boulter.
  • Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
  • Ludvig Holberg becomes a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

    • Prose

  • Nicholas Amhurst – Protestant Popery; or, The Convocation (part of the Bangorian Controversy)
  • Daniel Defoe (attr.) – A Vindication of the Press
  • Charles Gildon – The Complete Art of Poetry
  • Mary Hearne – The Lover's Week
  • Simon Ockley – The History of the Saracens, volume 2
  • Ambrose Philips – The Free-Thinker (periodical)
  • Allan Ramsay -Christ's Kirk on the Green (revised version)
  • John Ray – Philosophical Letters
  • John Strype – The Life and Acts of John Witgift
  • John Toland – Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity
  • John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – Remains of the Earl of Rochester

    • Drama

  • Charles Beckingham – Scipio Africanus
  • John Durant Breval – The Play is the Plot
  • Susanna Centlivre – A Bold Stroke for a Wife
  • Colley Cibber – The Non-Juror
  • Charles Molloy – The Coquet, or the English Chevalier
  • Richard Savage – Love in a Veil
  • Elkanah Settle and Lewis Theobald – The Lady's Triumph
  • Lewis Theobald
  • Orestes (opera)
  • Pan and Syrinx (opera)
  • Voltaire – Œdipe

    • Poetry

  • Joseph Addison
  • Poems on Several Occasions
  • The Resurrection
  • Richardson Pack – Miscellanies in Verse and Prose
  • Alexander Pope – The Iliad of Homer iv
  • José de Léón y Mansilla – Soledad tercera

    • Births

  • February 18
  • Søren Abildgaard, Danish naturalist, author and artist (died 1791)
  • Robert Henry, Scottish historian (died 1790)
  • April 7 – Hugh Blair, Scottish rhetorician (died 1800)
  • May 16 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian philosopher (died 1799
  • July 18 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer (died 1808)

    • Deaths

  • April 27 – Jacques Bernard, French theologian (born 1658)
  • May 16 – Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Norwegian historian (born 1649)
  • May 22 – Gaspard Abeille, French lyric and tragic poet (born 1648)
  • July 28 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar (born 1630)
  • October 9 – Richard Cumberland, English philosopher and bishop (born 1631)
  • December 6 – Nicholas Rowe, English dramatist (born 1674)
  • December 9 – Vincenzo Coronelli Italian encyclopedist (born 1674)

    • References

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