1715 in literature

1715 in literature

The year 1715 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
* Peter the Great takes lessons in maritime affairs from Hermann Boerhaave, before departing for Holland.
* The 15, a Jacobite rising. The Battle of Preston.
* The death of Louis XIV of France leads to the accession of his infant son.

New books

* Joseph Addison - "The Free-Holder" (periodical)
* Jane Barker - "Exilius; or, The Banished Roman"
* Richard Bentley - "A Sermon upon Popery"
* Charles Cotton - "The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton"
* Samuel Croxall - "The Vision"
* Daniel Defoe - "An Appeal to Honour and Justice"
** - "The Family Instructor"
** - "A Hymn to the Mob"
* Elizabeth Elstob - "The Rudiments of Grammar"
* Charles Montagu - "The Works and Life of the Late Earl of Halifax"
* Alexander Pope - "The Temple of Fame" (based on Chaucer)
** - "The Iliad of Homer vol. i."
* Jonathan Richardson - "An Essay on the Theory of Painting"
* Alexander Smith ("Captain Alexander Smith") - "The Secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties, Ladies of Quality, and Jilts"
* Richard Steele - "The Englishman: Second Series" (periodical)
** - "Town-Talk" (periodical)
* William Symson - "A New Voyage to the East Indies" (pseudonymous)
* Thomas Tickell - "The First Book of Homer's Iliad"
* Isaac Watts - "Divine Songs"
** - "A Guide to Prayer"

New drama

* Christopher Bullock - "The Slip"
** - "A Woman's Revenge" (adapted from Aphra Behn)
* Henry Carey - "The Contrivances"
* Susanna Centlivre - "The Gotham Election" (unacted for political content)
* John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - "What d'ye call it?"
* Benjamin Griffin - "Injured Virtue; or, The Virgin Martyr"
** - "Love in a Sack"
* Charles Molloy - "The Perplex'd Couple"
* Nicholas Rowe -"The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey"
* Lewis Theobald - "The Perfidious Brother" (plagiarized)
* John Vanbrugh - "The Country House"

Births

* January - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosophical writer (died 1771)
* September 30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosophical writer (died 1780)
* Jane Collier
* John Hawkesworth
* Richard Jago

Deaths

* Nahum Tate, poet (born 1652)
* Gilbert Burnet, the divine
* Mary Monck
* William Dampier


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