1699 in literature
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The year 1699 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Jonathan Swift is out of work after the death of his employer, Sir William Temple.
- Joseph Addison receives a pension of £300 to enable him to travel abroad.
[edit] New books
- Richard Bentley - A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (prev. pub. in William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning)
- Thomas Brown - A Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, etc.
- Samuel Clarke - Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and the Canon of the New Testament
- - Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation and Repentance
- Jeremy Collier - A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage (see 1698 in literature)
- William Dampier - Voyages and Descriptions (vol. ii)
- John Dunton - The Dublin Scuffle
- Thomas D'Urfey - A Choice Collection of New Songs and Ballads
- George Farquhar - The Adventures of Covent-Garden
- François Fénelon - Telemaque ("The Adventures of Telemachus")
- Samuel Garth - The Dispensary (satire by one of Pope's mentors)
- John Hughes - The Court of Neptune
- George Keith - The Deism of William Penn, and his Brethren
- William King - The Furmetary
- in support of Charles Boyle - Dialogues of the Dead
- - A Journey to London
- Gerard Langbaine - The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (cont. by Charles Gildon)
- Anne Lefèvre - prose translation of Homer's Iliad
- Roger L'Estrange - Fables and Storyes Moralized
- John Locke - Mr Locke's Reply to the Right Revered the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter (see 1697 in literature)
- Frances Norton - Reliquae Gethinianae
- John Oldmixon - Reflections on the Stage, and Mr Collier's Defence of the Short View
- John Pomfret - The Choice
- Nahum Tate - Elegies
- William Temple - Letters Written by Sir William Temple During his Being Ambassador at The Hague (edited initially by Jonathan Swift)
- John Toland - The Life of John Milton
- - Amyntor; or, A Defence of Milton's Life
- Thomas Traherne - A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
- William Wake - The Principles of the Christian Religion Explained
- Ned Ward - A Trip to New-England
- James Wright - Historia Histrionica: An historical account of the English-stage
[edit] New drama
- Abel Boyer - Achilles, or Iphegenia in Aulis
- Colley Cibber - Xerxes
- John Dennis - Rinaldo and Armida
- George Farquhar - The Constant Couple
- Charles Gildon - Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate (a re-adaptation of Davenant's 1662 adaptation The Law Against Lovers)
- Joseph Harris - Love's a Lottery, and a Woman the Prize
- Peter Anthony Motteux - The Island Princess; or, The Generous Portuguese (opera, adapted from John Fletcher)
- Mary Pix - The False Friend
[edit] Births
- December 29 - Friedrich Ludwig Abresch, philologist (died 1782)
- Robert Blair, Scottish poet (died 1746)
- John Dyer, Welsh poet (died 1758) (probable)
- Madame Geoffrin, literary hostess (died 1777)
- Alexander Ross, philanthropist
- Joseph Spence, literary historian
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Obadiah Walker, controversial religious writer (born 1616)
- April 21 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (born 1639)
- April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (born 1646)
- date unknown
- John Beaumont
- John Evelyn
- Lady Anne Halkett, memoirist (born 1623)
- Edward Stillingfleet, theologian (born 1635)
- William Temple
- Erhard Weigel, philosopher (born 1625)
