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Events from the year 1714 in literature.

Events

  • March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, includes Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley.{{Cite ODNB |first=Valerie |last=Rumbold |title=Scriblerus Club (act. 1714) |year=2009 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/71160 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/71160 |accessdate=2011-02-04}}
  • July 4 – The scholar Antonio Magliabechi bequeaths his personal library to his patron Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to serve as a public library for the city of Florence. In doing so he founds the National Central Library.
  • July 27 – Robert Harley is dismissed as Britain's Lord High Treasurer.{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Hywel |title=Cassell's Chronology of World History |url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/294 |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year=2005 |isbn=0-304-35730-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/294 294]}}
  • August 1 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain after the death of Queen Anne. This leads many writers to oppose the new Whig ministry, initiating the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment of Henry St. John. Samuel Garth publishes a poem in praise of Queen Anne; he subsequently becomes royal surgeon and is the first man to be knighted by George I.{{cite journal|title=Sir Samuel Garth, F.R.S.: The Dispensary Poet|author=C. C. Booth|publisher=Royal Society|journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London|volume=40|number=2|date=May 1986|pages=125–145|doi=10.1098/rsnr.1986.0008|pmid=11620893|s2cid=1271150}}
  • August 12 – Jonathan Swift writes to Esther Vanhomrigh to tell her he is returning to Ireland. Soon afterwards, she follows.
  • unknown date – Moses ben Avraham Avinu is imprisoned in Halle for printing Hebrew texts with supposedly anti-Christian content, but escapes to Amsterdam.{{cite book|author=Marvin J. Heller|title=Printing the Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_uEW6sVCjMC&pg=PA72|year=1999|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-11293-6|pages=72}}

New books

=Prose=

=Drama=

  • William Shakespeare – The Works of Mr William Shakespear (ed. Nicholas Rowe, 3rd edition)
  • Susanna Centlivre – The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret{{cite book|author=Susanna Centlivre|title=The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaFGA_-66SwC|date=19 December 2003|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-55111-454-5|page=9}}
  • Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun – Mahomet second, tragédie
  • Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez – Habis, tragédie{{cite book|author1=François Parfaict|author2=Claude Parfaict|title=Histoire du théatre françois: depuis son origine jusqu'à présent, avec la vie des plus célèbres poètes dramatiques, un catalogue exact de leurs piéces, & des notes historiques & critiques. Tome quinziéme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3HBcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA481|year=1749|publisher=Chez P. G. Le Mercier|pages=481}}
  • Robert Hunter – Androboros
  • Charles Johnson – The Victim{{cite book|author1=George Watson|author2=Ian R. Willison|author3=J. D. Pickles|title=The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-s8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA123|date=2 July 1971|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-07934-1|pages=123}}
  • Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei – Merope (published in 1714, but initially staged in 1713){{Cite book |last1=Marrone |first1=Gaetana |last2=Puppa |first2=Paolo |title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies |date=2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135455309 |page=1101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1101 |accessdate=7 July 2019 |language=en}}
  • Nicholas Rowe – Jane Shore{{cite book|author=Nicholas Rowe|title=The tragedy of Jane Shore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3XZZAAAAcAAJ|year=1714|publisher=T. Johnson, Bookseller at The Hague}}

=Poetry=

{{main article|1714 in poetry}}

Births

Deaths

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  • January 17 – Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish royal librarian and poet (born 1662)
  • March 3 – Hans Carl von Carlowitz, German administrator and writer on forestry (born 1645)
  • June 22 – Matthew Henry, Welsh Biblical commentator (born 1662){{EB1911|wstitle=Henry, Matthew|inline=1}}
  • June 28 – Daniel Papebroch, Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (born 1628)
  • July 4 – Antonio Magliabechi, Italian scholar and librarian (born 1633)
  • October 18 – Takemoto Gidayū (竹本 義太夫), Japanese jōruri chanter and playwright (born 1651){{Cite book |last=Gerstle |first=Drew |title=Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays |url=https://archive.org/details/chikamatsu00gers |url-access=limited |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2001 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chikamatsu00gers/page/n28 10]–18}}
  • November 7 – Charles Davenant, English economist (born 1656){{cite book|author1=Philip H. Highfill|author2=Kalman A. Burnim|author3=Edward A. Langhans|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5HgNEf-oSYC&pg=PA166|year=1975|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-0693-0|pages=166}}
  • December 15 – Silvester Jenks, English Catholic theologian and philosopher (born 1656)

References

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