1708 in literature

1708 in literature

The year 1708 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* The Battle of Oudenarde
* Joseph Trapp becomes Oxford Professor of Poetry.
* Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.

New books

* Joseph Addison - "The Present State of the War" (pro-Marlborough tract)
* Edmund Arwaker - "Truth in Fiction" (fables)
* Francis Atterbury - "Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions"
* Joseph Bingham - "Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church", vol. 1
* Richard Blackmore - "The Kit-Cats"
* Jeremy Collier - "An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England" (vol. 1)
* Ebenezer Cook - "The Sot-Weed Factor"
* Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm" (contra radical Protestantism)
* Edmund Curll - "The Charitable Surgeon"
* John Downes - "Roscius Anglicanus" (a historical review of the stage)
* Elijah Fenton - "Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems"
* Bishop Fisher's "Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby" (with a preface by Thomas Baker)
* John Gay - "Wine"
* Charles Gildon - "Libertas Triumphans" (re Battle of Oudenarde)
** - "The New Metamorphosis" (fiction)
* John Harris - "", vol. 1 (2nd edition)
* Aaron Hill - "The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, for the Armour of Achilles" (from Ovid)
* Benjamin Hoadly - "The Unhappiness of the Present Establishment, and the Unhappiness of Absolute Monarchy"
* William King - "The Art of Cookery" (poem)
* Anne de La Roche-Guilhem - "La Foire de Beaucaire"
* John Locke - "Some Familiar Letters" (posth.)
* Simon Ockley - "The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt by the Saracens" (vol. 1 of "History of the Saracens")
* Matthew Prior - "Poems on Several Occasions" (see 1707 for the vexatious publication)
*Jonathan Swift - "Predictions for the Year 1708"
** - "The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions" (together, part of the "Bickerstaff Papers")
** - "An Argument against Abolishing Christianity"

New drama

* Thomas Baker - "The Fine Lady's Airs"
* Peter Anthony Motteux - "Love's Triumph" (opera)
* Nicholas Rowe - "The Royal Convert"

Births

* April 23 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (died 1754)
*"date unknown"
**Olof von Dalin, poet
**Richard Dawes, English classical scholar (died 1766)
**Thomas Seward, English poet
** Samuel Boyse
** Laetitia Pilkington (poss.)

Deaths

*October 11 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, philosopher (born 1651)
*October 22 - Hermann Witsius, theologian (born 1636)
*"date unknown"
**Johannes Kelpius, polymath (born 1673)
**Nicolae Milescu, travel writer (born 1636)
**William Walsh, poet and critic (born 1663)


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