1713 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1713.
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Events
    
- March 12 – Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found the short-lived The Guardian; in the same year, Steele founds another periodical, ostensibly as a sequel to it, the likewise short-lived The Englishman.[1]
 - April 14 – The first performance is given in London of Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.[2]
 - October – Alexander Pope announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer.[3]
 - unknown date – Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th-century Cretan romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), is printed, for the first time, in Venice.
 
New books
    
    Prose
    
- John Arbuthnot – Proposals for printing a very curious discourse... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume ("The Art of Political Lying")
 - Jane Barker – The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
 - Richard Bentley (as Phileleutherus Lipsiensis) – Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking (see Collins below)
 - George Berkeley – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Dialogue sur les héros de roman
 - Robert Challe – Les Illustres Françaises (The Illustrious French Lovers)
 - Anthony Collins – A Discourse of Free-thinking
 - Daniel Defoe
- And What if the Pretender Should Come?
 - A General History of Trade
 - Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
 
 - John Dennis – Remarks upon Cato
 - Abel Evans – Vertumnus
 - John Gay
- Rural Sports
 - The Fan
 
 - Edmund Gibson – Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani
 - Antoine Hamilton – Mémoires du comte de Gramont (published anonymously)
 - John Hughes – Letters of Abelard and Heloise (widely published translation)[4]
 - Henri Joutel – Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique (Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684–1687)
 - Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe
 - Jonathan Swift
- Mr. C--n's Discourse of Free-thinking, Put into Plain English (see above, Collins)
 - Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
 
 - John Toland – Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland
 - Ned Ward – The History of the Grand Rebellion
 
Drama
    
- Anonymous – The Apparition
 - Joseph Addison – Cato, a Tragedy
 - José de Cañizares – Don Juan de Espina en Milán
 - John Gay – The Wife of Bath
 - Charles Shadwell – The Merry Wives of Broad Street
 - William Taverner – The Female Advocates
 
Poetry
    
- Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions (includes "Sally in Our Alley" and "Namby Pamby")
 - Anne Finch – Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
 - Alexander Pope
- Windsor Forest
 - Ode for Musick
 
 - Edward Young
- An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne
 - A Poem on the Last Day
 
 
See also 1713 in poetry
Births
    
- January 13 – Charlotte Charke (Charlotte Cibber), English novelist, dramatist and actress (died 1760)
 - February 20 – Anna Maria Elvia, Swedish poet (died 1784)
 - April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (died 1796)
 - June 11 – Edward Capell, English Shakespeare scholar (died 1781)
 - July 9 – John Newbery, English publisher and writer for children (died 1767)
 - October 5 – Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist (died 1784)
 - October 25 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (née de Mézières), French novelist and actress (died 1792)
 - November 24 – Laurence Sterne, Irish-born novelist and cleric (died 1768)
 - December 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classicist and critic (died 1785)
 
Deaths
    
- January 5 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
 - January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader and religious writer (born 1637)
 - May 20 – Thomas Sprat, English writer, poet and bishop (born 1635)
 - September 11 – Johannes Voet, Dutch jurist and legal writer (born 1647)
 - September 18 – Samuel Cobb, English poet and critic (born 1675)
 - October 20 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician and writer (born 1652)[5]
 - October 30 – John Barret, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (born 1631)
 - December 14 – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal (born 1641)[6]
 
Notes
    
- Mary Beth Harris. Gale Researcher Guide for: Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and the Rise of the Periodical Genre. Gale, Cengage Learning. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-1-5358-5347-7.
 - Litto, Fredric M. (1966). "Addison's Cato in the Colonies". William and Mary Quarterly. 23: 431–449. JSTOR 1919239.
 - Alexander Pope (1871). The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin. J. Murray. p. 199.
 -  Hughes, John; Mr Pope (1360). Letters of Abelard and Heloise. London: James Rivington and J Fletcher, P Davey and B Law, T Lowdes and T Caslon. 
letters of abelard and heloise hughes
 - Macintyre, I (2014). "Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713)". The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 44 (3): 258–259. doi:10.4997/jrcpe.2014.317. ISSN 1478-2715. PMID 25478636.
 - The Westminster Review. J.M. Mason. 1869. p. 298.
 
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