1712 in literature

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1712 in literature

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The year 1712 in literature involved some significant events.

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Events

New books

  • John ArbuthnotLaw Is a Bottomless Pit (introducing the character of John Bull) (first of a series of five tracts collected as The History of John Bull in the same year)
  • George BerkeleyPassive Obedience
  • Richard BlackmoreCreation
  • Sir Thomas BrownePosthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne
  • Samuel ClarkeThe Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity
  • Daniel Defoe (attrib) – A Further Search into the Conduct of the Allies
  • John DennisAn Essay upon the Genius and Writings of Shakespear
  • William DiaperDryaides
    • Nereides
  • Thomas EllwoodDavideis: the Life of David King of Israel
  • John GayThe Mohocks
  • Bernard de MandevilleTyphon
  • John Oldmixon
    • The Dutch Barrier Ours
    • Reflections on Dr Swift's Letter to the Ear of Oxford, About the English Tongue
    • The Secret History of Europe
  • Thomas OtwayThe Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
  • Matthew PriorErle Robert's Mice (imitation of Chaucer)
  • Woodes RogersA cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope
  • Nicholas RoweCallipaedia (transl.)
  • George Sewell – The Patriot
  • Richard Steele as "Scoto-Brittanus" – The Englishman's Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough
  • Jonathan SwiftSome Advice Humbly Offer'd to the Members of the October Club
    • A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (signed)
  • Leonard WelstedThe Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime (one of the earliest translations of περί ύπσος in English)

New drama

Poetry

See also 1712 in poetry

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