1705 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1705.

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 (近松 門左衛門) 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

Prose

• 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
• Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier – La Tour ténébreuse, et les jours lumineux: contes anglois
• 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 (pirated edition)
• Delarivière Manley – The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman à 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

Drama

• Thomas Baker – Hampstead Heath
• Susannah Centlivre
  • The Gamester (anonymously)
  • 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]

References

1. Encyclopædia Britannica.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. "Who was John Vanbrugh?". Britain Unlimited. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
4. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.).
5. Celia Hawkesworth, A History of Central European Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 0-333-77809-X
6. Lynne Tatlock (translator): The Court Midwife: Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2005: ISBN 0-226-75709-9