1704 in literature

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The year 1704 in literature involved some significant events.

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Battle of Blenheim
The capture of Gibraltar during the War of the Spanish Succession by British and Dutch troops, allies of Archduke Charles, the Austrian pretender to the Spanish Crown.
Architect and dramatist, Sir John Vanbrugh, is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.

Joseph Addison - The Campaign
Edmund Arwaker - An Embassy from Heav'n (re Queen Mary)
Mary Astell - A Fair Way with Dissenters and their Patrons (reply to Defoe)
William Chillingworth - The Works of William Chillingworth
Mary Davys - The Amours of Alcyippus and Leucippe
Daniel Defoe - The Address
- - The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge
- - An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born English-man
- - An Essay on the Regulation of the Press (attrib.)
- - Giving Alms No Charity, and Employing the Poor a Grievance to the Nation
- - A Hymn to Victory
- - The Lay-Man's Sermon on The Storm (re Great Storm of 1703)
- - More Short-Ways with the Dissenters
- - A Review of the Affairs of France
John Dennis - The Person of Quality's Answer to Mr Collier's Letter
Andrew Fletcher - An Account of a Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Good of Mankind
Pierre Jurieu - Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes
White Kennett - The Christian Scholar (attrib.)
Sarah Kemble Knight - The Journals of Madam Knight
Charles Leslie - The Wolf Stript of his Shepherd's Clothing (contra Defoe's "Shortest Way")
Bernard de Mandeville - Typhon
Isaac Newton - Opticks
Mary Pix - Violenta
Matthew Prior - A Letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux
Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub (first 3 editions)
- - The Battle of the Books
William Wycherley - Miscellany Poems