- 1713 in literature
The year 1713 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
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Scriblerus Club is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, and Henry St. John. They meet atJohn Arbuthnot 's house.
*Richard Steele andJoseph Addison found "The Guardian ", and Steele founds another short-lived periodical, "The Englishman".New books
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John Arbuthnot - "Proposals for printing a very curious discourse... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume" ("The Art of Political Lying")
*Jane Barker - "The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia"
*Richard Bentley as "Phileleutherus Lipsiensis" - "Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking" (vs. Collins)
*George Berkeley - "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous"
* Henry Carey - "Poems on Several Occasions" (with "Sally in Our Alley" and "Namby Pamby ")
*Anthony Collins - "A Discourse of Free-thinking"
*Daniel Defoe
**"And What if the Pretender Should Come?"
**"A General History of Trade"
**"Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover"
*John Dennis - "Remarks upon Cato"
*Abel Evans - "Vertumnus"
*John Gay
**"Rural Sports"
**"The Fan"
*Edmund Gibson - "Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani"
*Antoine Hamilton - "Mémoires du comte de Gramont" (published anonymously)
* John Hughes - "Letters of Abelard and Heloise" (widely published transl.)cite book|last=Hughes |first= John |authorlink= |coauthors= Mr Pope |title= Letters of Abelard and Heloise |publisher= James Rivington and J Fletcher, P Davey and B Law, T Lowdes and T Caslon |date = MCCCLX |location= London |pages= |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6KAGAAAAQAAJ&dq=letters+of+abelard+and+heloise+hughes&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=yUPXeCVUq5&sig=SbS8tKS2Gx9MF5nDEeGKh2xMe3w#PPP7,M1 |doi= |id= |isbn= ]
*Thomas Parnell - "An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry"
*Jonathan Swift - "Mr. C--n's Discourse of Free-thinking, Put into Plain English" (see above, Collins)
** - "Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated"
*John Toland - "Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland"
*Ned Ward - "The History of the Grand Rebellion"New drama
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Joseph Addison - "Cato"
*John Gay - "The Wife of Bath"
* Charles Johnson - "The Successful Pyrate" (set off a minor furore over the morality of portraying pirates on stage; actually a satire)
* William Taverner - "The Female Advocates"Poetry
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Anne Finch - "Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions"
*Alexander Pope
**"Windsor Fores"
**"Ode for Musick"
*Edward Young
**"An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne"
**"A Poem on the Last Day""See also1713 in poetry "Births
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April 12 -Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer (died1796 )
*November 24 -Laurence Sterne - an Irish-bornnovelist (died1768 )
*Jonathan Toup - English classical scholar and critic (died1785 )
*Denis Diderot , encyclopedistDeaths
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January 11 -Pierre Jurieu (born1637 )
*May 20 -Thomas Sprat , clergyman and writer (born1635 )
*December 14 -Thomas Rymer , historiographer (born1641 )Notes
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