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Everything about 1707 In Literature totally explainedThe year 1707 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
New books
Anonymous - Memoirs of the Court of England (transl.)
- - The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)
Richard Baxter - The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter
Thomas Brown - The Works of Mr Thomas Brown
Samuel Cobb - Poems on Several Occasions
Anthony Collins - Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
Jean de Beaugue - Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
Thomas D'Urfey - Stories, Moral and Comical
Laurence Echard - The History of England vol. 1
Delarivière Manley - The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (fiction)
Isaac Newton - Arithmetica Universalis
John Oldmixon - The Muses Mercury (periodical)
John Pomfret - Quae Rara, Chara (poem)
A. Phillipick Schiner - Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translation by John Toland)
Jonathan Swift - A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
Nahum Tate - The Triumph of Union
Matthew Tindal - A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (seq. to 1706 work)
Catherine Trotter - A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
Isaac Watts - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted thereafter)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon
New drama
Joseph Addison - Rosamund (opera)
Susanna Centlivre - The Platonick Lady
Colley Cibber - The Lady's Last Stake
George Farquhar - The Beaux' Stratagem
Peter Anthony Motteux - Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera)
Nicholas Rowe - The Royal Convert
Nahum Tate - Injur'd Love (an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil)
Births
January 13 - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (died 1762)
February 14 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, novelist (died 1777)
February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, dramatist (died 1793)
April 22 - Henry Fielding, novelist (died 1754)
August 14 - Johann August Ernesti, philologist (died 1781)
September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
Charles Wesley, Church of England clergyman and one of the architects of Methodism
Deaths
January 20 - Humphrey Hody, theologian
April 20 - George Farquhar, dramatist (born 1678)
June 23 - John Mill, theologian (born c.1645)
September 15 - George Stepney, British poet and diplomat (born 1663)
September 24 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
December 27 - Jean Mabillon, the founder of palaeography (born 1632)
date unknown - Alexandre Exquemelin, pirate author (born c.1645)
John Tutchin, controversialist, journalist, and "literary dunce"
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