1712 in literature

1712 in literature

The year 1712 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Lady Mary Pierrepont elopes with Edward Wortley Montagu.
* Fire destroys William Bowyer's printing press.
* Henry St. John is elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bolingbroke for his services in Harley's tory ministry

New books

* John Arbuthnot - "Law Is a Bottomless Pit" (introducing the character of John Bull) (first of a series of five tracts collected as "The History of John Bull" in the same year)
* George Berkeley - "Passive Obedience"
* Richard Blackmore - "Creation"
* Sir Thomas Browne - "Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne"
* Samuel Clarke - "The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity"
* Daniel Defoe (attrib) - "A Further Search into the Conduct of the Allies"
* John Dennis - "An Essay upon the Genius and Writings of Shakespear"
* William Diaper - "Dryaides"
** - "Nereides"
* Thomas Ellwood - "Davideis: the Life of David King of Israel"
* John Gay - "The Mohocks"
* Bernard de Mandeville - "Typhon"
* John Oldmixon
**"The Dutch Barrier Our's"
**"Reflections on Dr Swift's Letter to the Ear of Oxford, About the English Tongue"
**"The Secret History of Europe"
* Thomas Otway - "The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway"
* Matthew Prior - "Erle Robert's Mice" (imitation of Chaucer)
* Woodes Rogers - "A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope"
* Nicholas Rowe - "Callipaedia" (transl.)
* George Sewell - "The Patriot"
* Richard Steele as "Scoto-Brittanus" - "The Englishman's Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough"
* Jonathan Swift - "Some Advice Humbly Offer'd to the Members of the October Club"
** - "A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue" (signed)
* Leonard Welsted - "The Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime" (one of the earliest translations of "περί ύπσος" in English)

New drama

* Susanna Centlivre - "The Perplex'd Lovers"
* Pierre de Marivaux - "Le Père prudent et equitable"
* John Philips - "The Distrest Mother"

Poetry

* George Granville, Lord Lansdowne - "Poems Upon Several Occasions"
* Peter Anthony Motteux - "A Poem Upon Tea"
* John Philips - "Poems"
* Alexander Pope
**"The Rape of the Lock"
**"Miscellaneous Poems and Translations"
* Thomas Tickell - "A Poem, to his Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal"
* John Wright - "The Best Mirth" (hymns)"See also 1712 in poetry"

Births

*March 22 - Edward Moore, dramatist (died 1757)
*June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher (died 1778)
*September 15 - Pierre Simon Fournier, type designer (died 1768)
*November 1 - Antonio Genovesi, philosopher (died 1769)
*December 11 - Count Francesco Algarotti, philosopher and art critic. (died 1764)
*"date unknown"
**Andrew Foulis, printer
**Richard Glover, poet

Deaths

*April 11 - Richard Simon, biblical critic (born 1638)
*April 30 - Philipp van Limborch, theologian (born 1633)
*August 3 - Joshua Barnes, scholar (born 1654)
*December 25 - William King (born 1663)
*"date unknown"
**Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet
**Thomas Halyburton, theologian
**Jan Luyken, poet and artist
** Richard Cromwell, son of The Protector
** Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, former ministry leader and "junto" leader

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