1704 in literature

1704 in literature

The year 1704 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Battle of Blenheim
* The capture of Gibraltar during the War of the Spanish Succession by British and Dutch troops, allies of Archduke Charles, the Austrian pretender to the Spanish Crown.
* Architect and dramatist, Sir John Vanbrugh, is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.

New books

* Joseph Addison - "The Campaign"
* Edmund Arwaker - "An Embassy from Heav'n" (re Queen Mary)
* Mary Astell - "A Fair Way with Dissenters and their Patrons" (reply to Defoe)
* William Chillingworth - "The Works of William Chillingworth"
* Mary Davys - "The Amours of Alcyippus and Leucippe"
* Daniel Defoe - "The Address"
** - "The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge"
** - "An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born English-man"
** - "An Essay on the Regulation of the Press" (attrib.)
** - "Giving Alms No Charity, and Employing the Poor a Grievance to the Nation"
** - "A Hymn to Victory"
** - "The Lay-Man's Sermon on The Storm" (re Great Storm of 1703)
** - "More Short-Ways with the Dissenters"
** - "A Review of the Affairs of France"
* John Dennis - "The Person of Quality's Answer to Mr Collier's Letter"
* Andrew Fletcher - "An Account of a Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Good of Mankind"
* Pierre Jurieu - "Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes"
* White Kennett - "The Christian Scholar" (attrib.)
* Sarah Kemble Knight - "The Journals of Madam Knight"
* Charles Leslie - "The Wolf Stript of his Shepherd's Clothing" (contra Defoe's "Shortest Way")
* Bernard de Mandeville - "Typhon"
* Isaac Newton - "Opticks"
* Mary Pix - "Violenta"
* Matthew Prior - "A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux"
* Jonathan Swift - "A Tale of a Tub" (first 3 editions)
** - "The Battle of the Books"
* William Wycherley - "Miscellany Poems"

New drama

* Thomas Baker - "An Act at Oxford"
* Colley Cibber - "The Careless Husband"
* John Dennis -"Liberty Asserted"
* George Farquhar - "The Stage-Coach"
* Nicholas Rowe -"The Biter"
* Richard Steele - "The Lying Lover"
* William Tavener - "The Faithful Bride of Granada"
* Joseph Trapp - "Abra-Mule"

Births

* February 12 - Charles Pinot Duclos (died 1722)
* June 22 - John Taylor, classical scholar (died 1766)
*"date unknown" - John Adams, poet
* Soame Jenyns

Deaths

* April 12 - Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, French writer (born 1627)
* June 18 - Tom Brown (satirist) (born 1662)
* October 28 - John Locke, philosopher (born 1632)
* Jane Lead, visionary
* Roger L'Estrange
* Edward Ravenscroft


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