- 1722 in literature
The year 1722 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Voltaire andJean-Baptiste Rousseau meet and quarrel atBrussels .
* Ten-year-oldJean-Jacques Rousseau is abandoned by his father, Isaac.
*William Wood gets a patent to issue copper coins in Ireland.
*Edmund Bolton 's "Hypercritica" is published, a century after it was written.New books
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Penelope Aubin -"The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda" (fiction)
** "The Noble Slaves" (fiction)
*Phanuel Bacon - "The Kite"
*Daniel Bellamy - "The Cambro-Britannic Engineer"
*Thomas Cooke - "Marlborough" (written after his death)
*Samuel Croxall - "Fables of Aesop and Others"
*Daniel Defoe - "Moll Flanders "
** "A Journal of the Plague Year "
** "Colonel Jack"
** "Due Preparations for the Plague"
** "Religious Courtship"
*John Dennis - "A Defence of Sir Fopling Flutter"
*William Hamilton - "The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd SirWilliam Wallace "
*Eliza Haywood - "The British Recluse" (fiction)
*Hildebrand Jacob - "Bedlam"
* Allan Ramsay - "Fables and Tales"
* SirCharles Sedley - "Works"
*William Sewel - "The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers"
*Jonathan Swift - "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General" (satire on Marlborough, written before his death)
*Matthew Tindal - "A Defence of Our Present Happy Establishment"
*Isaac Watts - "Death and Heaven"
*William Wollaston - "The Religion of Nature Delineated"New drama
* Henry Carey - "Hanging and Marriage"
*Pierre de Marivaux - "La Surprise de l'amour "
*Ambrose Philips - "The Briton"
*Archibald Pitcairne - "The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation"
*Richard Steele - "The Conscious Lovers "Poetry
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Thomas Parnell - "Poems on Several Occasions"
*Elizabeth Thomas - "Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects"Births
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April 11 -Christopher Smart , English poet (died1771 )
*September 22 -John Home , Scottish dramatist (died1808 )
*October 4 -Dominic Schram , theologian (died 1797)
*"date unknown"
**John Brown, theologian
**John Burgoyne , soldier and dramatist
**Mary Leapor , poet (died 1746)
**Joseph Warton , English poet and critic (died1800 )Deaths
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January 23 -Henri de Boulainvilliers , historian (born1658 )
*March 11 -John Toland , philosopher (born1670 )
*August -Robert Sibbald , antiquary (born1641 )
*September 18 -André Dacier , French scholar (born1651 )
*"date unknown"
**Johann Michael Heineccius , theologian (born1674 )
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