1699 in literature

1699 in literature

The year 1699 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Jonathan Swift is out of work after the death of his employer, Sir William Temple.
*Joseph Addison receives a pension of £300 to enable him to travel abroad.

New books

* Richard Bentley - "A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris" (prev. pub. in William Wotton's "Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning")
* Thomas Brown - "A Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, etc."
*Samuel Clarke - "Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and the Canon of the New Testament"
** - "Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation and Repentance"
* Jeremy Collier - "A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage" (see 1698 in literature)
* William Dampier - "Voyages and Descriptions" (vol. ii)
* John Dunton - "The Dublin Scuffle"
* Thomas D'Urfey - "A Choice Collection of New Songs and Ballads"
* George Farquhar - "The Adventures of Covent-Garden"
* François Fénelon - "Telemaque" ("The Adventures of Telemachus")
* Samuel Garth - "The Dispensary" (satire by one of Pope's mentors)
* John Hughes - "The Court of Neptune"
* George Keith - "The Deism of William Penn, and his Brethren"
* William King - "The Furmetary"
** in support of Charles Boyle - "Dialogues of the Dead"
** - "A Journey to London"
* Gerard Langbaine - "The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets" (cont. by Charles Gildon)
* Anne Lefèvre - prose translation of Homer's "Iliad"
* Roger L'Estrange - "Fables and Storyes Moralized"
* John Locke - "Mr Locke's Reply to the Right Revered the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter" (see 1697 in literature)
* Frances Norton - "Reliquae Gethinianae"
* John Oldmixon - "Reflections on the Stage, and Mr Collier's Defence of the Short View"
* John Pomfret - "The Choice"
* Nahum Tate - "Elegies"
* William Temple - "Letters Written by Sir William Temple During his Being Ambassador at The Hague" (edited initially by Jonathan Swift)
* John Toland - "The Life of John Milton"
** - "Amyntor; or, A Defence of Milton's Life"
* Thomas Traherne - "A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God"
* William Wake - "The Principles of the Christian Religion Explained"
* Ned Ward - "A Trip to New-England"
* James Wright - "Historia Histrionica"

New drama

* Abel Boyer - "Achilles, or Iphegenia in Aulis"
* Colley Cibber - "Xerxes"
* John Dennis - "Rinaldo and Armida"
* George Farquhar - "The Constant Couple"
* Charles Gildon - "Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate" (a re-adaptation of Davenant's 1662 adaptation "The Law Against Lovers")
*Joseph Harris - "Love's a Lottery, and a Woman the Prize"
*Peter Anthony Motteux - "The Island Princess; or, The Generous Portuguese" (opera, adapted from John Fletcher)
* Mary Pix - "The False Friend"

Births

*December 29 - Friedrich Ludwig Abresch, philologist (died 1782)
* Robert Blair, Scottish poet (died 1746)
* John Dyer, Welsh poet (died 1758) (probable)
* Madame Geoffrin, literary hostess (died 1777)
* Alexander Ross, philanthropist
* Joseph Spence, literary historian

Deaths

*January 21 - Obadiah Walker, controversial religious writer (born 1616)
*April 21 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (born 1639)
*April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (born 1646)
*"date unknown"
** John Beaumont
** John Evelyn
**Lady Anne Halkett, memoirist (born 1623)
**Edward Stillingfleet, theologian (born 1635)
** William Temple
**Erhard Weigel, philosopher (born 1625)


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