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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1718'''.

==Events==
*[[November 1]] – [[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]] writes the last of her ''Turkish Letters'', addressed to [[Alexander Pope]].
*[[November 18]] – [[Voltaire]]'s first play, ''[[Oedipus (Voltaire)|Oedipus]]'', premières at the [[Comédie-Française]] in [[Paris]]. This is his first use of the pseudonym. He has been released from the [[Bastille]] this year, while [[Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal]], begins a two-year sentence.
*''The Free-Thinker'', a Whig newspaper, is founded by poet [[Ambrose Philips]] and Rev. [[Hugh Boulter]] in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=University of North Carolina (1793-1962)|title=Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YocXAQAAMAAJ|year=1945|page=190}}</ref>
*[[Laurence Eusden]] becomes [[Poet Laureate]] of England.<ref>{{cite web |title=Laurence Eusden – British poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-Eusden |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=17 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Ludvig Holberg]] becomes a professor at the [[University of Copenhagen]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student, by S. C. Hammer, M. A. |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37177/37177-h/37177-h.htm |website=www.gutenberg.org |accessdate=17 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

==New books==
===Prose===
*[[Nicholas Amhurst]] – ''Protestant Popery; or, The Convocation'' (part of the [[Bangorian Controversy]])
*[[Daniel Defoe]] (attr.) – ''A Vindication of the Press''
*[[Charles Gildon]] – ''The Complete Art of Poetry''
*[[Mary Hearne]] – ''The Lover's Week''
*[[Simon Ockley]] – ''[[The History of the Saracens]]'', volume 2
*[[Ambrose Philips]] – ''The Free-Thinker'' (periodical)
*[[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]] -''[[Christis Kirk on the Green|Christ's Kirk on the Green]]'' (revised version)
*[[John Ray]] – ''Philosophical Letters''
*[[John Strype]] – ''The Life and Acts of John Witgift''
*[[John Toland]] – ''Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity''
*[[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]] – ''Remains of the Earl of Rochester''

===Drama===
*[[Charles Beckingham]] – ''[[Scipio Africanus (play)|Scipio Africanus]]''
*[[John Durant Breval]] – ''[[The Play is the Plot]]''
*[[Christopher Bullock (actor)|Christopher Bullock]] – ''[[The Traitor (1718 play)|The Traitor]]''
*[[Susanna Centlivre]] – ''[[A Bold Stroke for a Wife]]''
*[[Charles Molloy (playwright)|Charles Molloy]] – ''[[The Coquet]]''
*[[Richard Savage (poet)|Richard Savage]] – ''[[Love in a Veil]]''
*[[Elkanah Settle]] and [[Lewis Theobald]] – ''[[The Lady's Triumph]]''
*[[Voltaire]] – ''[[Oedipus (Voltaire)|Œdipe]]''

===Poetry===
*[[Joseph Addison]]
**''Poems on Several Occasions''
**''The Resurrection''
*[[Richardson Pack]] – ''Miscellanies in Verse and Prose''
*[[Alexander Pope]] – ''The Iliad of Homer'' iv

==Births==
*[[February 18]]
**[[Søren Abildgaard]], Danish naturalist, author and artist (died [[1791 in literature|1791]])
**[[Robert Henry (minister)|Robert Henry]], Scottish historian (died [[1790 in literature|1790]])
*[[April 7]] – [[Hugh Blair]], Scottish rhetorician (died [[1800 in literature|1800]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]], Italian philosopher (died [[1799 in literature|1799]])
*[[July 18]] – [[Saverio Bettinelli]], Italian Jesuit writer (died [[1808 in literature|1808]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Spencer Baynes|title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0L9zK1pM7vYC&pg=PA618|year=1875|publisher=A. and C. Black|pages=618}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[April 27]] – [[Jacques Bernard (theologian)|Jacques Bernard]], French theologian (born [[1658 in literature|1658]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Jonas Danilssønn Ramus]], Norwegian historian (born [[1649 in literature|1649]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Gaspard Abeille]], French lyric and tragic poet (born [[1648 in literature|1648]])
*[[July 28]] – [[Étienne Baluze]], French scholar (born [[1630 in literature|1630]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Keith Busby|title=Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NsvcTtsIyRgC&pg=PA95|year=1993|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-5183-603-1|pages=95}}</ref>
*[[October 9]] – [[Richard Cumberland (philosopher)|Richard Cumberland]], English philosopher and bishop (born [[1631 in literature|1631]])
*[[December 6]] – [[Nicholas Rowe (dramatist)|Nicholas Rowe]], English dramatist (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicholas Rowe - English writer and editor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicholas-Rowe |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=17 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[December 9]] – [[Vincenzo Coronelli]] Italian encyclopedist (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria |url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/coroneli.html |website=galileo.rice.edu |accessdate=17 April 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
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*[[Bangorian Controversy]]
*[[1718 in poetry]]

==References==
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