1719_in_literature

1719 in literature

The year 1719 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Nicholas Rowe's widow receives a pension from King George I in recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia.
Daniel Defoe launches the periodical The Manufacturer
Richard Steele launches The Plebian (periodical).

Anonymous - Zulima
Joseph Addison
- Maxims, Observations, and Reflections
- Notes upon the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost
- The Old Whig I
- The Old Whig II
John Durant Breval
- Mac-Dermot
- Ovid in Masquerade ("by Mr. Joseph Gay" - part of Curll's continuing battle with John Gay)
Daniel Defoe
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Charles Gildon - The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Mr. D -- DeF--, of London, Hosier (satire on Defoe)
Eliza Haywood - Love in Excess
Benjamin Hoadly - The Common Rights of Subjects, Defended
Giles Jacob - The Poetical Register (biographies of playwrights, by themselves)
Nicholas Rowe - Lucan's Pharsalia
Isaac Watts - The Psalms of David (transl.)
Edward Young - A Letter to Mr Tickell (in re Addison's death)

Anonymous - Heroick Friendship (attrib. to Thomas Otway but unknown authorship)
Thomas Betterton - The Bond-Man
Colley Cibber - Ximena
John Leigh - Kensington Gardens
Richard Savage - Love in a Veil
George Sewell - The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh
Thomas Southerne - The Spartan Dame
William Taverner - 'Tis Well If It Takes
Edward Young - Busiris