- 1714 in literature
The year 1714 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
* Sir
Samuel Garth , poet and royal physician, is knighted by KingGeorge I of Great Britain
* Death of QueenAnne of Great Britain , which threw many writers out of position and put them into opposition.
* Accession ofGeorge I of the United Kingdom , who brought with him a whig ministry, and notably the rise ofRobert Walpole and indictment and trial of bothRobert Harley andHenry St. John .New books
* Anonymous - "A Compleat Key to The Dispensary" (in re
Samuel Garth 's 1699 poem)
** - "The Court of Atalantis" (attrib. toDelarivière Manley , but possiblyJohn Oldmixon or others)
** - "The Ladies Tale" (stories)
** - "The Ladies Library" (ed.Richard Steele )
*John Arbuthnot - "A Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn"
** - "A Postscript to John Bull"
*Daniel Defoe - "A Secret History of the White-Staff" (reporting allegations against Harley)
*William Diaper - "An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace"
*Thomas Ellwood - "The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood"
*Laurence Eusden - "A Letter to Mr Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne"
*Abel Evans - "Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton"
*John Gay - "The Shepherd's Week"
*Charles Gildon - "A New Rehearsal" (an attack on Pope, "et al.")
* Anthony Hamilton - "Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont" (transl.Abel Boyer )
*Samuel Jones - "Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions"
* William King et al. - "The Persian and the Turkish Tales, Compleat"
*Gottfried Leibniz - "Monadologia"
*John Locke - "The Works of John Locke" (posth.)
*Bernard de Mandeville - "The Fable of the Bees "
*Delarivière Manley - "The Adventures of Rivella; or, The History of the Author of the Atalantis"
*Alexander Pope - "The Rape of the Lock "
*Nicholas Rowe - "Poems on Several Occasions"
*William Shakespeare - "The Works of Mr William Shakespear" (ed.Nicholas Rowe , 3rd edition)
*Alexander Smith or "Captain Alexander Smith" - "The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men, Foot-pads, House-breakers, Shop-lifts, and Cheats..."
*Richard Steele - "The Crisis"
** - "The Englishman" (collection and end of the periodical)
** - "The Lover" (periodical)
** - "Mr Steele's Apology for Himself and his Writings"
** - "Poetical Miscellanies" (with contributions from Pope,Thomas Parnell ,John Gay ,Thomas Warton ,Edward Young , and others)
** - "The Public Spirit of the Tories" (attrib.: response to Swift)
** - "The Reader" (periodical)
*Jonathan Swift - "The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd"
** - "The Public Spirit of the Whigs"
*Ned Ward - "The Field-Spy"
*Edward Young - "The Force of Religion"New drama
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Susanna Centlivre - "The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret"
* Robert Hunter - "Androboros "
* Charles Johnson - "The Victim"
* Nicholas Rowe - "The Tragedy ofJane Shore "Births
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January 1 -Kristijonas Donelaitis , poet (died1780 )
*April 14 -Adam Gib , theologian (died1788 )
*November 13 -William Shenstone , English poet (died1763 )
*James Hervey , the anatomist
*George Whitefield , the preacherDeaths
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June 22 -Matthew Henry , Biblical commentator (born1662 )
*"date unknown" -Charles Davenant , economist, son of SirWilliam Davenant (born1656 )
*"date unknown" -Antonio Magliabechi , librarian (born1633 )
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