1706 in literature

1706 in literature

The year 1706 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* The "Dublin Gazette" is launched.
* Daniel Defoe is sent to Edinburgh as a government agent.
* Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell on the immortality of the soul.
* The Battle of Ramillies, a victory for the British under the Duke of Marlborough, inspires several poets.

New books

* Anon. - "Arabian Nights Entertainments" (serial, transl. fr. French transl.)
* Arthur Bedford - "The Evil and Dangers of Stage-Plays"
* Samuel Clarke - "A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion"
* Stephen Clay - "An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King"
* Daniel Defoe
**"An Essay at Removing National Prejudices Against a Union with Scotland"
**"A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal" (attrib)
* John Dennis - "Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner"
* White Kennett - "The History of England from the Commencement of the Reign of Charles I to the End of William III"
* John Locke - "Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke"
* Simon Ockley - "Introductio ad linguas orientates"
* John Philips - "Cerealia: An imitation of Milton"
* Matthew Prior - "The Squirrel"
* Jonathan Swift - "Baucis and Philemon"
* Thomas Tickell - "Oxford"
* Matthew Tindal - "The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted"
*Ned Ward - "The London Spy"

New drama

* Thomas Betterton - "The Amorous Widow"
* Susanna Centlivre - "Love at a Venture"
* Colley Cibber - "Perolla and Izadora"
* Catherine Trotter Cockburn - "The Revolution of Sweden"
* Antoine Danchet - "Cyrus"
* Thomas D'Urfey - "Wonders in the Sun" (opera)
* George Farquhar - "The Recruiting Officer"
* George Granville - "The British Enchanters, or No Magic Like Love"
* Delarivière Manley - "Almyna, or The Arabian Vow"
* Mary Pix (attr.) - "The Adventures in Madrid"
* Nicholas Rowe - "Ulysses"
* John Vanbrugh - "The Mistake"

Poetry

* Daniel Baker - "The History of Job"
* Richard Blackmore - "An advice to the poets: a poem occasioned by the wonderful success of her majesty's arms, under the conduct of the duke of Marlborough in Flanders"
* William Congreve - "A Pindarique Ode. . . the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough"
*Daniel Defoe
**"Caledonia"
**"A Hymn to Peace"
**"Jure Divino" (on divine right)
**"The Vision" (re National Union)
*John Dennis - "The Battle of Ramillia"
* William Harison - "Woodstock Park"

Births

* January 17 - Benjamin Franklin, polymath (died 1790)
* January 28 - John Baskerville, printer (died 1775)
* November 8 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, philosopher (died 1772)
* December 17 - Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator (died 1749)
* Benjamin Hoadley of the Bangorian controversy

Deaths

* "January" - Ned Kynaston, actor (born c.1640)
* January 21 - Adrien Baillet, French critic (born 1649)
* February 27 - John Evelyn, diarist (born 1620)
*August 6 - Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, natural philosopher
*December 8 - Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye, historian
* December 28 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (born 1647)
* "date unknown" - John Phillips, satirist (born 1631)


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