1705 in literature
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The year 1705 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where his participation in field sports will furnish the material for much of his poetry.
- Richard Steele marries wealthy widow Margaret Stretch.
- Claude Pierre Goujet enters holy orders.
- Richard Challoner is sent to the English college at Douai.
- William Walsh begins his correspondence with Alexander Pope.
- Sir John Vanbrugh builds the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket in London.
[edit] New books
- Joseph Addison - Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- Mary Astell - The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church
- Richard Blackmore - Eliza (poetry)
- George Cheyne - Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (deist)
- Samuel Clarke - A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
- Mary Davys - The Fugitive (prose)
- Daniel Defoe - The Consolidator
- - The Double Welcome (ode)
- - The Dyet of Poland (sat. poem)
- - A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman
- John Dunton - The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London (humor)
- Edmund Gibson - Family-Devotion
- Charles Gildon - The Deist's Manual
- Charles Johnson - The Queen; a Pindaric Ode
- Gottfried Leibniz - Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain ("New Essays on Human Understanding")
- Bernard de Mandeville - The Grumbling Hive (pirate ed.)
- Delarivière Manley - The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman a clef)
- John Philips - Blenheim
- - The Splendid Shilling
- Katherine Philips - Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (posth)
- Matthew Prior - An English Padlock
- Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub, fifth edition (with Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, The Battle of the Books, and Notes)
- Ned Ward - Hudibras Redidivus (poem)
- John Toland - Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church
- Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae (poem)
[edit] New drama
- Thomas Baker - Hampstead Heath
- Susannah Centlivre - The Gamester
- - The Basset-Table
- Colley Cibber - The Careless Husband
- John Dennis - Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure
- Peter Anthony Motteux - The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser
- - Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera)
- William Mountfort - Zelmane
- Mary Pix (attr.) - The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
- Richard Steele - The Tender Husband
- Sir John Vanbrugh - The Mistake
[edit] Births
- June 21 - David Hartley (philosopher) (died 1757)
- May - Ambrosius Stub, poet (died 1758)
- September 2 - Abraham Tucker, philosopher
- November 23 - Thomas Birch, British historian (died 1766)
- date unknown
- Isaac Hawkins Browne, poet
- Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, historian (died 1783)
- Stephen Duck
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Madame d'Aulnoy, author of fairy tales
- February 5 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (born 1635)
- April 2 - John Howe, theologian
- October 17 - Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salon hostess (born 1620)
- date unknown
- Johann Ernst Glück, Lutheran writer (born 1654)
- Michael Wigglesworth, poet (born 1631)
- Titus Oates, originator of the "Popish Plot"
