1694_in_literature

1694 in literature

The year 1694 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

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 Covnersations

John Banks - The Innocent Usurper; or, The Death of the Lady Jane Grey
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery - Herod the Great published
William Congreve - The Double-Dealer
John Crowne - The Married Beau; or, The Curious Impertinent
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
Elkanah Settle - The Ambitious Slave; or A Generous Revenge
Thomas Southerne - The Fatal Marriage; or The Innocent Adultery (adapted from Aphra Behn's The Nun)
Joseph Williams - Have at All, or the Midnight Adventures

August 8 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (died 1746)
October 9 - Marquard Herrgott, German Benedictine historian (died 1762)
November 1 - Voltaire, French philosopher and writer (died 1778)
December 22 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher (died 1768)
unknown date
- Mademoiselle Aïssé, letter-writer
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (died 1773)

August 6 - Antoine Arnauld, theologian and philosopher (born 1612)
October 13 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German philosopher and historian (born 1632)
November 8 - Ulrik Huber, political philosopher (born 1636)
November 28 - Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (born 1644)
date unknown
- Henry Neville, English satirist (born 1620)
- Elizabeth van der Woude, Dutch traveller and author (born 1657)