1705 in literature

1705 in literature

The year 1705 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where his participation in field sports will furnish the material for much of his poetry.
*Richard Steele marries wealthy widow Margaret Stretch.
*Claude Pierre Goujet enters holy orders.
*Richard Challoner is sent to the English college at Douai.
*William Walsh begins his correspondence with Alexander Pope.
* Sir John Vanbrugh builds the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket in London.

New books

* Joseph Addison - "Remarks on Several Parts of Italy"
* Mary Astell - "The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church"
* Richard Blackmore - "Eliza" (poetry)
* George Cheyne - "Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion" (deist)
* Samuel Clarke - "A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God"
* Mary Davys - "The Fugitive" (prose)
* Daniel Defoe - "The Consolidator"
** - "The Double Welcome" (ode)
** - "The Dyet of Poland" (sat. poem)
** - "A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman"
* John Dunton - "The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London" (humor)
* Edmund Gibson - "Family-Devotion"
* Charles Gildon - "The Deist's Manual"
* Charles Johnson - "The Queen; a Pindaric Ode"
*Gottfried Leibniz - "Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain ("New Essays on Human Understanding")"
* Bernard de Mandeville - "The Grumbling Hive" (pirate ed.)
* Delarivière Manley - "The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians" (roman a clef)
* John Philips - "Blenheim"
** - "The Splendid Shilling"
* Katherine Philips - "Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus" (posth)
* Matthew Prior - "An English Padlock"
* Jonathan Swift - "A Tale of a Tub", fifth edition (with "Mechanical Operation of the Spirit", "The Battle of the Books", and Notes)
* Ned Ward - "Hudibras Redidivus" (poem)
* John Toland - "Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church"
* Isaac Watts - "Horae Lyricae" (poem)

New drama

* Thomas Baker - "Hampstead Heath"
* Susannah Centlivre - "The Gamester"
** - "The Basset-Table"
* Colley Cibber - "The Careless Husband"
* John Dennis - "Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure"
* Peter Anthony Motteux - "The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser"
** - "Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus" (opera)
* William Mountfort - "Zelmane"
* Mary Pix (attr.) - "The Conquest of Spain" (adapted from William Rowley's "All's Lost by Lust")
* Richard Steele - "The Tender Husband"
* Sir John Vanbrugh - "The Mistake"

Births

*June 21 - David Hartley (philosopher) (died 1757)
*May - Ambrosius Stub, poet (died 1758)
*September 2 - Abraham Tucker, philosopher
*November 23 - Thomas Birch, British historian (died 1766)
*"date unknown"
**Isaac Hawkins Browne, poet
**Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, historian (died 1783)
** Stephen Duck

Deaths

*January 4 - Madame d'Aulnoy, author of fairy tales
*February 5 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (born 1635)
*April 2 - John Howe, theologian
*October 17 - Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salon hostess (born 1620)
*"date unknown"
**Johann Ernst Glück, Lutheran writer (born 1654)
**Michael Wigglesworth, poet (born 1631)
** Titus Oates, originator of the "Popish Plot"


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