1713 in literature

1713 in literature

The year 1713 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Scriblerus Club is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, and Henry St. John. They meet at John Arbuthnot's house.
* Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found "The Guardian", and Steele founds another short-lived periodical, "The Englishman".

New books

* 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

* 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

* 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 also 1713 in poetry"

Births

* April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer (died 1796)
* November 24 - Laurence Sterne - an Irish-born novelist (died 1768)
* Jonathan Toup - English classical scholar and critic (died 1785)
* Denis Diderot, encyclopedist

Deaths

* January 11 - Pierre Jurieu (born 1637)
* May 20 - Thomas Sprat, clergyman and writer (born 1635)
* December 14 - Thomas Rymer, historiographer (born 1641)

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