1705 in literature

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The year 1705 in literature involved some significant events.

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.

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)

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

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

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"