1708 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708.
Events
[edit]- July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.[1]
- unknown date – Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Joseph Addison – The Present State of the War (pro-Marlborough tract)[3]
- Francis Atterbury – Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions[4]
- Joseph Bingham – Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, vol. 1[5]
- Laurent Bordelon – Mital; ou Aventures incroyables[6]
- Elizabeth Burnet – A Method of Devotion[7]
- Jeremy Collier – An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England, vol. 1[8]
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (opposing radical Protestantism)
- Edmund Curll – The Charitable Surgeon
- Anne Dacier (Anne Lefèvre) – Homer's Odyssey (prose, first translation into French)
- John Downes – Roscius Anglicanus (historical review of the stage)
- John Fisher, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester (executed 1535) – Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (originally delivered 1509; published with an anonymous preface by Thomas Baker)
- John Gay – Wine
- Charles Gildon
- Libertas Triumphans (re Battle of Oudenarde)
- The New Metamorphosis (fiction)
- John Harris – Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1 (2nd edition)
- Aaron Hill & Nahum Tate – The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, for the Armour of Achilles (from Ovid)[9]
- Benjamin Hoadly – The Unhappiness of the Present Establishment, and the Unhappiness of Absolute Monarchy
- Anne de La Roche-Guilhem – La Foire de Beaucaire
- François Leguat – Voyage et avantures de François Leguat et de ses compagnons, en deux isles désertes des Indes orientales (A new voyage to the East-Indies)[10]
- John Locke (died 1704) – Some Familiar Letters
- Simon Ockley – The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt by the Saracens (vol. 1 of History of the Saracens)
- John Oldmixon – The British Empire in America
- Jonathan Swift
- Predictions for the Year 1708[11]
- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (together with part of the "Bickerstaff Papers")
- An Argument against Abolishing Christianity[12]
Drama
[edit]- Thomas Baker – The Fine Lady's Airs (first performed December 18)[13]
- Charles Goring – Irene
- Peter Anthony Motteux – Love's Triumph (opera)
- Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert[14]
- William Taverner – The Disappointment[15]
- Lewis Theobald – The Persian Princess[15]
Poetry
[edit]- Richard Blackmore – The Kit-Cats
- Ebenezer Cooke – The Sot-Weed Factor (poem)
- Elijah Fenton – Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
- William King – The Art of Cookery (poem)
- Matthew Prior – Poems on Several Occasions (see also 1707)
Births
[edit]- April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (died 1754)[16]
- July 8 – Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, French dramatist (died 1775)
- August 29 – Olof von Dalin, Swedish poet (died 1763)
- September 2 – André le Breton, French publisher (died 1779)[17]
- October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss biologist and poet (died 1777)
- unknown dates
- Richard Dawes, English classical scholar (died 1766)
- Thomas Seward, English poet (died 1790)[18]
Deaths
[edit]- January 1 – Johannes Kelpius, German polymath (born 1673)
- March 4 – Thomas Ward, English Catholic writer (born 1652)[19]
- March 5 – Charles Le Gobien, French Jesuit writer (born 1653)
- March 15 – William Walsh, English poet and critic (born 1662)[20]
- October 11 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German philosopher (born 1651)[21]
- October 21
- Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian Baroque writer (born 1659)
- Christian Weise, German dramatist and poet (born 1642)
- October 22 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (born 1636)[22]
- November 15 – Gregory Hascard, English religious writer and cleric (year of birth unknown)
- unknown date – Nikolai Spathari (Nicolae Milescu), Moldavian travel writer and diplomat (born 1636)[23]
References
[edit]- ^ s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00)
- ^ Thomas Jones. "Lhuyd, Edward (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom (1951). "Joseph Addison and Eighteenth-Century "Liberalism"". Journal of the History of Ideas. 12 (4): 560–583. doi:10.2307/2707486. JSTOR 2707486.
- ^ Eric Parisot (22 April 2016). Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-317-12490-0.
- ^ Colin Kidd (13 March 1999). British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-139-42572-8.
- ^ Kenneth Thompson (21 August 2013). Culture & Progress:Esc. Routledge. p. 478. ISBN 978-1-136-47940-3.
- ^ The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats. Department of English, Temple University. 2007. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-670-06320-8.
- ^ Saint Peter's Church, Cornhill (LONDON); Robert WILKINSON (of the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill.) (1837). An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill. Proprietor. p. 2.
- ^ Christine Gerrard (2003). Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-19-818388-4.
- ^ François Le Guat (1708). Voyage Et Avantures De François Leguat, & de ses Compagnons, En Deux Isles Desertes Des Indes Orientales... Chez David Mortier.
- ^ David Oakleaf (6 October 2015). A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift. Routledge. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-317-31552-0.
- ^ Eugene Hammond (22 March 2016). Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-61149-607-9.
- ^ Thomas Baker (March 2006). The Fine Lady's Airs. Dodo Press. ISBN 978-1-4065-0502-3.
- ^ Michael Caines (3 November 2016). The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume II: The Middle Period Plays. Taylor & Francis. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-134-98114-4.
- ^ a b William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.
- ^ Franz J. L. Thimm (1866). The Literature of Germany: From Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed. Franz Thimm. p. 21.
- ^ Association des bibliothécaires français (1909). Revue des bibliothèques. Émile Bouillon. pp. 298–299.
- ^ Dr Teresa Barnard (28 April 2013). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-4094-7533-0.
- ^ Thomas Ward (1742). England's reformation ... A poem in four cantos ... The fifth edition. With marginal notes ... as also, the author's life, etc. printed, and sold by Hue Firstfire. p. 13.
- ^ Sambrook, James (2004). "Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28620. Retrieved 2015-07-15. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ "Pierre Costabel". Leibniz and Dynamics: The Texts of 1962. Hermann. 1973. p. 69.
- ^ J. Bertrand Payne (2020). Haydn ́s Universal Index of Biography. Salzwasser-Verlag GmbH. p. 576. ISBN 9783846047712.
- ^ Nikolaos Chrissidis (10 August 2016). An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia. Cornell University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-60909-189-7.