1705 in literature

The year 1705 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.

Events

• George Hickes' Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus vol. 2 (published in Oxford) includes the first published reference to Beowulf and the only surviving transcript of the Finnesburg Fragment.
• Chikamatsu Monzaemon almost totally abandons the writing of kabuki plays and is appointed staff writer to the bunraku theater in Osaka.^[1]
• William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where his participation in field sports will furnish the material for much of his poetry.
• Richard Steele leaves the army and marries wealthy widow Margaret Stretch.
• Claude Pierre Goujet enters holy orders.
• William Walsh begins his correspondence with Alexander Pope.
• Construction begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed by playwright John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough.^[2]
• July 29 - Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai.
• October 30 - John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen’s Theatre in Haymarket.^[3][4]
• December 27 - John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake (adapted from the French) is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen’s Theatre in Haymarket.^[3][4]

New books

• Joseph Addison - Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
• Mary Astell - The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church
• Dimitrie Cantemir - Historia Hieroglyphica (the first novel to use the Romanian language)
• 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
  • 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 (piratad edn.)
• 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
• Matthew Prior (posthumous) - 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)
• John Toland - Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church

New drama

• Thomas Baker - Hampstead Heath
• Susannah Centlivre
  • The Gamester
  • The Basset-Table
• Colley Cibber - The Careless Husband
• Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Idoménée
• John Dennis - Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure
• George Granville - The British Enchanters
• Peter Anthony Motteux
  • The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser
  • Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera)
• William Mountfort - Zelmane
• Mary Pix (attributed) - The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
• Richard Steele - The Tender Husband
• John Vanbrugh - The Mistake

Poetry

• Richard Blackmore - Eliza
• Daniel Defoe
  • The Double Welcome
  • The Dyet of Poland
• Ned Ward - Hudibras Redidivus
• Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae

See also 1705 in poetry

Births

• January 21 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (died 1760)
• February 13 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Polish dramatist^[5] (died 1753)
• May – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (died 1758)
• June 21 – David Hartley, English philosopher (died 1757)
• September 2 – Abraham Tucker (Edward Search), English philosopher (died 1774)
• October 29 – Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, German historian (died 1783)
• November 23 – Thomas Birch, English historian (died 1766)
• Probable year of birth – Stephen Duck, English poet (died 1756)

Deaths

• January 4 – Madame d'Aulnoy, French author of fairy tales (born c. 1650)
• January 10 – Étienne Pavillon, French lawyer and poet (born 1632)
• February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (born 1635)
• April 2 – John Howe, English theologian (born 1630)
• May 5 – Johann Ernst Glück, German writer and translator (born 1654)
• June 10 – Michael Wigglesworth, English poet (born 1631)
• October 17 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salonnière (born 1620)
• November 10 – Justine Siegemund, German writer on midwifery (born 1636)^[6]

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