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Overview of the events of 1712 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1712 .
Events
July 7 –
Henry St. John is raised to the
peerage of Great Britain as
Viscount Bolingbroke for services in
Robert Harley 's
Tory ministry.
August 14 –
Alexander Pope outlines his project for a satirical periodical, The Works of the Unlearned , from which develops the
Scriblerus Club , whose members include Pope,
Jonathan Swift ,
John Gay ,
Thomas Parnell ,
Robert Harley ,
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke , and Dr
John Arbuthnot at whose house they meet.
August 23 –
Lady Mary Pierrepont marries
Edward Wortley Montagu , after an elopement.
October 31 – King
Philip V of Spain establishes the
Biblioteca Nacional de España as the Palace Public Library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio) in
Madrid .
November 4 –
Jonathan Swift foils a murder attempt on
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , in what becomes known as the
Bandbox Plot .
November 7 –
Charles Johnson 's dramatisation of episodes from the life of
Henry Every ,
The Successful Pyrate , receives its première at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane . Although it is primarily satirical,
John Dennis subsequently complains to
Charles Killigrew ,
Master of the Revels , that the play glamorizes
pirates . The controversy contributes to its theatrical success.
[1]
unknown date –
Shota Rustaveli 's 12th-century poem
The Knight in the Panther's Skin is first printed, in
Tbilisi .
New books
Prose
John Arbuthnot – Law Is a Bottomless Pit (introducing the character of
John Bull ;
[2] first in a series of five tracts collected as The History of John Bull in the same year)
George Berkeley – Passive Obedience
Jean-Paul Bignon – Les Avantures d'Abdalla, fils d'Hanif (The adventures of Abdalla, son of Hanif)
Richard Blackmore – Creation
James Brome – Travels through Portugal, Spain, and Italy
Sir
Thomas Browne – Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne
Samuel Clarke – The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity
Daniel Defoe (attrib) – A Further Search into the Conduct of the Allies
John Dennis – An Essay upon the Genius and Writings of Shakespear
William Diaper
Thomas Ellwood – Davideis: the Life of David, King of Israel
John Gay – The
Mohocks
Bernard de Mandeville – Typhon
John Oldmixon
The Dutch Barrier Ours
Reflections on Dr Swift's Letter to the Earl of Oxford, about the English Tongue
The Secret History of Europe
Thomas Otway – The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
Woodes Rogers – A Cruising Voyage round the World: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope
Nicholas Rowe – Callipaedia (translation)
George Sewell – The Patriot
Richard Steele (as Scoto-Brittanus) – The Englishman's Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough
Jonathan Swift
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (signed)
Some Advice Humbly Offer'd to the Members of the October Club
Leonard Welsted – The Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime (among earliest translations of περί ύπσος in English)
Drama
Poetry
See also
1712 in poetry
Births
Deaths
References