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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1694
.
Events
August 24
– The
Académie française
publishes the first complete edition of its
Dictionnaire
in
Paris
.
[1]
October 25
–
Jonathan Swift
is ordained a deacon in the
Church of Ireland
.
[2]
December 28
– The death of Queen
Mary II of England
prompts the writing of numerous elegies.
[3]
date unknown
– Shortly before his death,
Matsuo Bashō
completes the writing of
Oku no Hosomichi
("Narrow road to the interior"), not published until 1702.
New books
Prose
Edmund Arwaker –
An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau
Mary Astell
–
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Thomas Pope Blount
–
De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry
Gilbert Burnet
–
Four Discourses
Jeremy Collier
–
Miscellanies
John Dryden
and
Jacob Tonson
–
The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694
George Fox
–
The Journal of
George Fox
, edited by
Thomas Ellwood
Charles Gildon
–
Chorus Poetarum; or, Poems on Several Occasions
(incl.
Aphra Behn
,
John Denham
,
George Etheridge
,
Andrew Marvell
,
inter al.
)
William Killigrew
–
Mid-night and Daily Thoughts
William King
–
Account of Denmark
Jane Lead
–
The Enochian Walks with God
Jan Luyken
–
Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades")
John Milton
–
Letters of State
(trans. Edward Phillips)
John Strype
–
Memorials of
Thomas Cranmer
Matthew Tindal
–
An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nature and the Rights of Soveraigns
William Wotton
–
Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning
(answering
Sir William Temple
)
James Wright –
Country Conversations
Drama
John Banks
–
The Innocent Usurper; or, The Death of the Lady Jane Grey
published
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
–
Herod the Great
published
William Congreve
–
The Double Dealer
published
John Crowne
–
The Married Beau
John Dryden
–
Love Triumphant; or, Nature Will Prevail
Thomas D'Urfey
–
The Comical History of Don Quixote
(some songs by
Henry Purcell
)
Laurence Echard
, translator:
Plautus
's Comedies: Amphytrion, Epidicus, and Rudens
Terence
's Comedies
Edward Ravenscroft
–
The Canterbury Guests
Elkanah Settle
–
The Ambitious Slave
Thomas Southerne
–
The Fatal Marriage
(adapted from
Aphra Behn
's
The Nun
)
Joseph Williams –
Have at All, or the Midnight Adventures
Poetry
See
1694 in poetry
Births
August 8
–
Francis Hutcheson
, Irish philosopher (died
1746
)
September 22
–
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
, English man of letters (died
1773
)
October 9
–
Marquard Herrgott
, German Benedictine historian (died
1762
)
November 1
–
Voltaire
, French philosopher and writer (died
1778
)
[4]
December 22
–
Hermann Samuel Reimarus
, German philosopher (died
1768
)
probable
Mademoiselle Aïssé
, French letter-writer (died
1733
)
James Bramston
, English satirical poet (died
1743
)
Deaths
August 6
–
Antoine Arnauld
, French theologian and philosopher (born
1612
)
[5]
September –
Henry Neville
, English satirist (born
1620
)
October 13
–
Samuel von Pufendorf
, German philosopher and historian (born
1632
)
November 8
–
Ulrik Huber
, Dutch-born German political philosopher (born
1636
)
November 28
–
Matsuo Bashō
(松尾 芭蕉), Japanese poet (born
1644
)
December 9
–
Paolo Segneri
, Italian ascetic writer (born
1624
)
References
^
Philip Durkin (2016).
The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography
. Oxford University Press. p. 609.
ISBN
978-0-19-969163-0
.
^
James Allan Downie,
Jonathan Swift, Political Writer
(Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), p 55
^
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri ..: M-Z. 2
. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson. 1861. p. 633.
^
Samia I. Spencer (2005).
Writers of the French Enlightenment
. Thomson Gale. p. 197.
ISBN
978-0-7876-8132-6
.
^
Antoine Arnauld; Pierre Nicole (18 April 1996).
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking
. Cambridge University Press. p. 19.
ISBN
978-0-521-48394-0
.
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