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1713 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1713.

Events

  • March 12 – Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found the short-lived The Guardian; in the same year, Steele founds another periodical, ostensibly as a sequel to it, the likewise short-lived The Englishman.{{Cite book |author=Mary Beth Harris |title=Gale Researcher Guide for: Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and the Rise of the Periodical Genre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O5pqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP6 |publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-5358-5347-7 |pages=6–}}
  • April 14 – The first performance is given in London of Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.{{Cite journal |last=Litto |first=Fredric M. |title=Addison's Cato in the Colonies |year=1966 |volume=23 |journal=William and Mary Quarterly |pages=431–449 |jstor=1919239}}
  • October – Alexander Pope announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer.{{cite book|author=Alexander Pope|title=The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHyaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA199|year=1871|publisher=J. Murray|pages=199}}
  • unknown date – Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th-century Cretan romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), is printed, for the first time, in Venice.

New books

=Prose=

  • John Arbuthnot – Proposals for printing a very curious discourse... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume ("The Art of Political Lying")
  • Jane Barker – The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
  • Richard Bentley (as Phileleutherus Lipsiensis) – Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking (see Collins below)
  • George Berkeley – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
  • Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Dialogue sur les héros de roman
  • Robert Challe – Les Illustres Françaises (The Illustrious French Lovers)
  • Anthony Collins – A Discourse of Free-thinking
  • Daniel Defoe
  • And What if the Pretender Should Come?
  • A General History of Trade
  • Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
  • John Dennis – Remarks upon Cato
  • Abel Evans – Vertumnus
  • John Gay
  • Rural Sports
  • The Fan
  • Edmund Gibson – Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani
  • Antoine Hamilton – Mémoires du comte de Gramont (published anonymously)
  • John Hughes – Letters of Abelard and Heloise (widely published translation){{Cite book |last=Hughes |first=John |author2=Mr Pope |title=Letters of Abelard and Heloise |publisher=James Rivington and J Fletcher, P Davey and B Law, T Lowdes and T Caslon |date=1360 |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/lettersabelarda02baylgoog |quote=letters of abelard and heloise hughes }}
  • Henri Joutel – Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique (Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684–1687)
  • Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
  • Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Mr. C--n's Discourse of Free-thinking, Put into Plain English (see above, Collins)
  • Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
  • John Toland – Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland
  • Ned Ward – The History of the Grand Rebellion

=Drama=

=Poetry=

See also 1713 in poetry

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