1705 in literature

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The year 1705 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where his participation in field sports will furnish the material for much of his poetry.
• Richard Steele marries wealthy widow Margaret Stretch.
• Claude Pierre Goujet enters holy orders.
• Richard Challoner is sent to the English college at Douai.
• William Walsh begins his correspondence with Alexander Pope.
• Sir John Vanbrugh builds the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket in London.

New books

• Joseph Addison - Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
• Mary Astell - The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church
• Richard Blackmore - Eliza (poetry)
• 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
  • - The Double Welcome (ode)
  • - The Dyet of Poland (sat. poem)
  • - 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 (pirate ed.)
• 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 (posth)
• Matthew Prior - 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)
• Ned Ward - Hudibras Redidivus (poem)
• John Toland - Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church
• Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae (poem)

New drama

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

Births

• June 21 - David Hartley (philosopher) (died 1757)
• May - Ambrosius Stub, poet (died 1758)
• September 2 - Abraham Tucker, philosopher
• November 23 - Thomas Birch, British historian (died 1766)
• date unknown
  • Isaac Hawkins Browne, poet
  • Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, historian (died 1783)
  • Stephen Duck

Deaths

• January 4 - Madame d'Aulnoy, author of fairy tales
• February 5 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (born 1635)
• April 2 - John Howe, theologian
• October 17 - Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salon hostess (born 1620)
• date unknown
  • Johann Ernst Glück, Lutheran writer (born 1654)
  • Michael Wigglesworth, poet (born 1631)
  • Titus Oates, originator of the "Popish Plot"