1694 in literature
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The year 1694 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Events
- October 25 – Jonathan Swift is ordained a deacon in the Church of Ireland.[1]
- December 28 – The death of Queen Mary II of England prompts numerous elegies.
- The Académie française publishes the first complete edition of its Dictionnaire in Paris.
- Matsuo Bashō completes the writing of Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior").
New books
- Edmund Arwaker – An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau
- Mary Astell – A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
- Thomas Pope Blount – De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry
- Gilbert Burnet – Four Discourses
- Jeremy Collier – Miscellanies
- John Dryden and Jacob Tonson – The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694
- George Fox – The Journal of George Fox, edited by Thomas Ellwood
- Charles Gildon – Chorus Poetarum; or, Poems on Several Occasions (incl. Aphra Behn, John Denham, George Etheridge, Andrew Marvell, inter al.)
- William Killigrew – Mid-night and Daily Thoughts
- William King – Account of Denmark
- Jane Lead – The Enochian Walks with God
- Jan Luyken – Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades")
- John Milton – Letters of State (trans. Edward Phillips)
- John Strype – Memorials of Thomas Cranmer
- Matthew Tindal – An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nature and the Rights of Soveraigns
- William Wotton – Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (answering Sir William Temple)
- James Wright – Country Covnersations
New drama
- John Banks – The Innocent Usurper; or, The Death of the Lady Jane Grey
- Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – Herod the Great published
- William Congreve – The Double Dealer published
- John Crowne – The Married Beau; or, The Curious Impertinent
- John Dryden – Love Triumphant; or, Nature Will Prevail
- Thomas D'Urfey – The Comical History of Don Quixote (some songs by Henry Purcell)
- Laurence Echard, translator:
- Elkanah Settle – The Ambitious Slave; or A Generous Revenge
- Thomas Southerne – The Fatal Marriage; or The Innocent Adultery (adapted from Aphra Behn's The Nun)
- Joseph Williams – Have at All, or the Midnight Adventures
Poetry
- See 1694 in poetry
Births
- August 8 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (died 1746)
- September 22 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (died 1773)
- October 9 – Marquard Herrgott, German Benedictine historian (died 1762)
- November 1 – Voltaire, French philosopher and writer (died 1778)
- December 22 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher (died 1768)
- probable – Mademoiselle Aïssé, letter-writer (died 1733)
Deaths
- August 6 – Antoine Arnauld, theologian and philosopher (born 1612)
- October 13 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German philosopher and historian (born 1632)
- November 8 – Ulrik Huber, political philosopher (born 1636)
- November 28 – Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (born 1644)
- December 9 – Paolo Segneri, ascetic writer (born 1624)
- date unknown
- Henry Neville, English satirist (born 1620)
- Elizabeth van der Woude, Dutch traveller and author (born 1657)
References
- ↑ James Allan Downie, Jonathan Swift, Political Writer (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), p 55
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