1713 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1713.

Events

• March 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 it, the likewise short-lived The Englishman.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 14 – The first performance is given in London of Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• October – Alexander Pope announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• unknown date – Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th-century Cretan romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), is printed, for the first time, in Venice.

New books

Prose

• John Arbuthnot – Proposals for printing a very curious discourse... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume ("The Art of Political Lying")
• Jane Barker – The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
• Richard Bentley (as Phileleutherus Lipsiensis) – Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking (see Collins below)
• George Berkeley – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Dialogue sur les héros de roman
• Robert Challe – Les Illustres Françaises (The Illustrious French Lovers)
• Anthony Collins – A Discourse of Free-thinking
• Daniel Defoe
  • And What if the Pretender Should Come?
  • A General History of Trade
  • Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
• John Dennis – Remarks upon Cato
• Abel Evans – Vertumnus
• John Gay
  • Rural Sports
  • The Fan
• Edmund Gibson – Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani
• Antoine Hamilton – Mémoires du comte de Gramont (published anonymously)
• John Hughes – Letters of Abelard and Heloise (widely published translation)<ref name= "hughes">Template:Cite book</ref>
• Henri Joutel – Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique (Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684–1687)
• Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
• Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe
• Jonathan Swift
  • Mr. C--n's Discourse of Free-thinking, Put into Plain English (see above, Collins)
  • Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
• John Toland – Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland
• Ned Ward – The History of the Grand Rebellion

Drama

• Anonymous – The Apparition
• Joseph Addison – Cato, a Tragedy
• José de Cañizares – Don Juan de Espina en Milán
• John Gay – The Wife of Bath
• Charles Shadwell – The Merry Wives of Broad Street
• William Taverner – The Female Advocates

Poetry

• Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions (includes "Sally in Our Alley" and "Namby Pamby")
• Anne Finch – Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
• Alexander Pope
  • Windsor Forest
  • Ode for Musick
• Edward Young
  • An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne
  • A Poem on the Last Day

See also 1713 in poetry

Births

• January 13 – Charlotte Charke (Charlotte Cibber), English novelist, dramatist and actress (died 1760)
• February 20 – Anna Maria Elvia, Swedish poet (died 1784)
• April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (died 1796)
• June 11 – Edward Capell, English Shakespeare scholar (died 1781)
• July 9 – John Newbery, English publisher and writer for children (died 1767)
• October 5 – Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist (died 1784)
• October 25 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (née de Mézières), French novelist and actress (died 1792)
• November 24 – Laurence Sterne, Irish-born novelist and cleric (died 1768)
• December 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classicist and critic (died 1785)

Deaths

• January 5 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
• January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader and religious writer (born 1637)
• May 20 – Thomas Sprat, English writer, poet and bishop (born 1635)
• September 11 – Johannes Voet, Dutch jurist and legal writer (born 1647)
• September 18 – Samuel Cobb, English poet and critic (born 1675)
• October 20 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician and writer (born 1652)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• October 30 – John Barret, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (born 1631)
• December 14 – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal (born 1641)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>