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1712 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1712.

Events

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New books

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Prose

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  • John ArbuthnotLaw 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 BerkeleyPassive Obedience
  • Jean-Paul BignonLes Avantures d'Abdalla, fils d'Hanif (The adventures of Abdalla, son of Hanif)
  • Richard BlackmoreCreation
  • James BromeTravels through Portugal, Spain, and Italy
  • 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 Diaper
    • Dryaides
    • 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 Earl of Oxford, about the English Tongue
    • The Secret History of Europe
  • Thomas OtwayThe Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
  • 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 (translation)
  • George SewellThe 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 WelstedThe Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime (among earliest translations of περί ύπσος in English)

Drama

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Poetry

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See also 1712 in poetry

Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.
  2. ^ "AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion," Metropolitan Museum of Art (2006), exhibition brochure, p. 2.
  3. ^ Restoration and 18th-Century Drama. Macmillan International Higher Education. November 1980. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-349-16422-6.
  4. ^ English poets (1862). Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson. pp. 233–.
  5. ^ Alexander Pope (2007). The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad (1728) & The Dunciad Variorum (1729). Pearson/Longman. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-582-42342-8.