1694 in literature

1694 in literature

The year 1694 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* Jonathan Swift is ordained a clergyman.
* Mary II of England dies, and her death prompts numerous elegies.

New books

* Edmund Arwaker - "An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau"
* Mary Astell - "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies"
* Thomas Pope Blount - "De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry"
* Gilbert Burnet - "Four Discourses"
* Jeremy Collier - "Miscellanies"
* John Dryden and Jacob Tonson - "The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694"
* George Fox - "The Journal of George Fox", edited by Thomas Ellwood
* Charles Gildon - "Chorus Poetarum; or, Poems on Several Occasions" (incl. Aphra Behn, John Denham, George Etheridge, Andrew Marvell, "inter al.")
* William Killigrew - "Mid-night and Daily Thoughts"
* William King - "Account of Denmark"
* Jane Lead - "The Enochian Walks with God"
* Jan Luyken - "Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades")"
* John Milton - "Letters of State" (trans. Edward Phillips)
* John Strype - "Memorials of Thomas Cranmer"
* Matthew Tindal - "An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nature and the Rights of Soveraigns"
* William Wotton - "Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning" (answering Sir William Temple)
* James Wright - "Country Covnersations"

New drama

* John Banks - "The Innocent Usurper; or, The Death of the Lady Jane Grey"
* Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - "Herod the Great" published
* William Congreve - "The Double-Dealer"
* John Crowne - "The Married Beau; or, The Curious Impertinent"
* John Dryden - "Love Triumphant; or, Nature Will Prevail"
* Thomas D'Urfey - "The Comical History of Don Quixote" (some songs by Henry Purcell)
* Laurence Echard, translator:
** "Plautus's Comedies: Amphytrion, Epidicus, and Rudens"
** "Terence's Comedies"
* Elkanah Settle - "The Ambitious Slave; or A Generous Revenge"
* Thomas Southerne - "The Fatal Marriage; or The Innocent Adultery" (adapted from Aphra Behn's "The Nun")
*Joseph Williams - "Have at All, or the Midnight Adventures"

Poetry

*"See 1694 in poetry"

Births

*August 8 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (died 1746)
*October 9 - Marquard Herrgott, German Benedictine historian (died 1762)
*November 1 - Voltaire, French philosopher and writer (died 1778)
*December 22 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher (died 1768)
* "unknown date"
**Mademoiselle Aïssé, letter-writer
**Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (died 1773)

Deaths

*August 6 - Antoine Arnauld, theologian and philosopher (born 1612)
*October 13 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German philosopher and historian (born 1632)
*November 8 - Ulrik Huber, political philosopher (born 1636)
*November 28 - Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (born 1644)
*"date unknown"
**Henry Neville, English satirist (born 1620)
**Elizabeth van der Woude, Dutch traveller and author (born 1657)


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