1720 in literature information

events and publications of 1720. September–October – The "South Sea Bubble", i.e. the collapse of the South Sea Company in England, affects the fortunes...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1720. 1720 (MDCCXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday...

Arbuthnot; 1718 in literature – Oedipus – Voltaire's first play 1719 in literature – Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 1720 in literature – Daniel Defoe,...

year 1720 in music. April – The Royal Academy of Music, a company formed for Handel in London, begins to produce operas. Giovanni Bononcini arrives in London...

The year 1720 in science and technology involved some significant events. February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal of England. May...

The table of years in literature is a tabular display of all years in literature for overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 2000s ·1900s...

Encyclopedia of Censorship. Infobase Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-4381-1001-1. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Gale Research Company. 1999. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7876-3263-2...

known examples of Swahili literature. Construction of the Biblioteca Joanina at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), begun in 1717, is completed. Penelope...

Voltaire makes an agreement with Abraham Viret to allow his work to be printed in Rouen. July – A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees...

Criticism Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman...

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Anthony Levi (1994). Guide to French literature: beginnings to 1789. St. James Press. p. 355. ISBN 978-1-55862-159-6....

Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar...

(born 1674) Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1718 in literature. Bangorian Controversy 1718 in poetry University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1945)...

April 5 – Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person. May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the...

publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). "Garth, Sir Samuel". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J....

Wheler and his Travels in Greece, 1650–1724. In: Essays by Divers Hands. Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. New Series, Volume 29...

Tepl. The Baroque period (1600 to 1720) was one of the most fertile times in German literature. Modern literature in German begins with the authors of...

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...

Bonny (disappeared after 28 November 1720) was a pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates in recorded history. What little that...

Master of the Revels for 48 years, is sold a few months after his death. In China, 66 copies of a 5,020-volume encyclopedia, the Complete Classics Collection...

(link) Day, Gary; Lynch, Jack (9 March 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789. John Wiley & Sons. p. 950. ISBN 978-1-4443-3020-5...

Virginia Blain et al., eds. "Thomas, Elizabeth". The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990, pp. 1075–1076. Robert...

Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the years 1700–1799. European literature of the 18th century refers to literature...

Addison and Richard Steele in London. May 23 – Robert Harley, author, statesman and friend to the "Tory wits," who has been involved in Anne, Queen of Great...

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...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – A year after the death of...

Events from the year 1714 in literature. March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, includes Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope,...

1991). "Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity". SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 31 (3): 535–551. doi:10.2307/450861. JSTOR 450861. William...

The decade of the 1720s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen arrives at Easter Island. Formal excavations...