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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708.

Events

July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.^[1]
unknown date – Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[2]

New books

Prose

Joseph Addison – The Present State of the War (pro-Marlborough tract)^[3]
Francis Atterbury – Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions^[4]
Joseph Bingham – Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, vol. 1^[5]
Laurent Bordelon – Mital; ou Aventures incroyables^[6]
Elizabeth Burnet – A Method of Devotion^[7]
Jeremy Collier – An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England, vol. 1^[8]
Ebenezer Cooke – The Sot-Weed Factor
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (opposing radical Protestantism)
Edmund Curll – The Charitable Surgeon
Anne Dacier (Anne Lefèvre) – Homer's Odyssey (prose, first translation into French)
John Downes – Roscius Anglicanus (historical review of the stage)
John Fisher, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester (executed 1535) – Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (originally delivered 1509; published with an anonymous preface by Thomas Baker)
John Gay – Wine
Charles Gildon
- Libertas Triumphans (re Battle of Oudenarde)
- The New Metamorphosis (fiction)
John Harris – Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1 (2nd edition)
Aaron Hill & Nahum Tate – The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, for the Armour of Achilles (from Ovid)^[9]
Benjamin Hoadly – The Unhappiness of the Present Establishment, and the Unhappiness of Absolute Monarchy
Anne de La Roche-Guilhem – La Foire de Beaucaire
François Leguat – Voyage et avantures de François Leguat et de ses compagnons, en deux isles désertes des Indes orientales (A new voyage to the East-Indies)^[10]
John Locke (died 1704) – Some Familiar Letters
Simon Ockley – The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt by the Saracens (vol. 1 of History of the Saracens)
John Oldmixon – The British Empire in America
Jonathan Swift
- Predictions for the Year 1708^[11]
- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (together with part of the "Bickerstaff Papers")
- An Argument against Abolishing Christianity^[12]

Drama

Thomas Baker – The Fine Lady's Airs (first performed December 18)^[13]
Charles Goring – Irene
Peter Anthony Motteux – Love's Triumph (opera)
Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert^[14]
William Taverner – The Disappointment^[15]
Lewis Theobald – The Persian Princess

Poetry

Richard Blackmore – The Kit-Cats
Elijah Fenton – Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
William King – The Art of Cookery (poem)
Matthew Prior – Poems on Several Occasions (see also 1707)

Births

April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (died 1754)^[16]
July 8 – Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, French dramatist (died 1775)
August 29 – Olof von Dalin, Swedish poet (died 1763)
September 2 – André le Breton, French publisher (died 1779)
October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss biologist and poet (died 1777)
unknown dates
- Richard Dawes, English classical scholar (died 1766)
- Thomas Seward, English poet (died 1790)^[17]

Deaths

January 1 – Johannes Kelpius, German polymath (born 1673)
March 4 – Thomas Ward, English Catholic writer (born 1652)^[18]
March 5 – Charles Le Gobien, French Jesuit writer (born 1653)
March 15 – William Walsh, English poet and critic (born 1662)^[19]
October 11 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German philosopher (born 1651)
October 21
- Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian Baroque writer (born 1659)
- Christian Weise, German dramatist and poet (born 1642)
October 22 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (born 1636)
November 15 – Gregory Hascard, English religious writer and cleric (year of birth unknown)
unknown date – Nikolai Spathari (Nicolae Milescu), Moldavian travel writer and diplomat (born 1636)^[20]

References

^ s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00)
^ Thomas Jones. "Lhuyd, Edward (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
^ Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom (1951). "Joseph Addison and Eighteenth-Century "Liberalism"". Journal of the History of Ideas. 12 (4): 560–583. doi:10.2307/2707486. JSTOR 2707486.
^ Eric Parisot (22 April 2016). Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-317-12490-0.
^ Colin Kidd (13 March 1999). British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-139-42572-8.
^ Kenneth Thompson (21 August 2013). Culture & Progress:Esc. Routledge. p. 478. ISBN 978-1-136-47940-3.
^ The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats. Department of English, Temple University. 2007. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-670-06320-8.
^ Saint Peter's Church, Cornhill (LONDON); Robert WILKINSON (of the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill.) (1837). An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill. Proprietor. p. 2.
^ Christine Gerrard (2003). Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-19-818388-4.
^ François Le Guat (1708). Voyage Et Avantures De François Leguat, & de ses Compagnons, En Deux Isles Desertes Des Indes Orientales... Chez David Mortier.
^ David Oakleaf (6 October 2015). A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift. Routledge. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-317-31552-0.
^ Eugene Hammond (22 March 2016). Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-61149-607-9.
^ Thomas Baker (March 2006). The Fine Lady's Airs. Dodo Press. ISBN 978-1-4065-0502-3.
^ Michael Caines (3 November 2016). The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume II: The Middle Period Plays. Taylor & Francis. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-134-98114-4.
^ William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.
^ Franz J. L. Thimm (1866). The Literature of Germany: From Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed. Franz Thimm. p. 21.
^ Dr Teresa Barnard (28 April 2013). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-4094-7533-0.
^ Thomas Ward (1742). England's reformation ... A poem in four cantos ... The fifth edition. With marginal notes ... as also, the author's life, etc. printed, and sold by Hue Firstfire. p. 13.
^ Sambrook, James (2004). "Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28620. Retrieved 2015-07-15. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Nikolaos Chrissidis (10 August 2016). An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia. Cornell University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-60909-189-7.

[1] s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00)

[2] Thomas Jones. "Lhuyd, Edward (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[3] Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom (1951). "Joseph Addison and Eighteenth-Century "Liberalism"". Journal of the History of Ideas. 12 (4): 560–583. doi:10.2307/2707486. JSTOR 2707486.

[4] Eric Parisot (22 April 2016). Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-317-12490-0.

[5] Colin Kidd (13 March 1999). British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-139-42572-8.

[6] Kenneth Thompson (21 August 2013). Culture & Progress:Esc. Routledge. p. 478. ISBN 978-1-136-47940-3.

[7] The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats. Department of English, Temple University. 2007. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-670-06320-8.

[8] Saint Peter's Church, Cornhill (LONDON); Robert WILKINSON (of the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill.) (1837). An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill. Proprietor. p. 2.

[9] Christine Gerrard (2003). Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-19-818388-4.

[10] François Le Guat (1708). Voyage Et Avantures De François Leguat, & de ses Compagnons, En Deux Isles Desertes Des Indes Orientales... Chez David Mortier.

[11] David Oakleaf (6 October 2015). A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift. Routledge. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-317-31552-0.

[12] Eugene Hammond (22 March 2016). Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-61149-607-9.

[13] Thomas Baker (March 2006). The Fine Lady's Airs. Dodo Press. ISBN 978-1-4065-0502-3.

[14] Michael Caines (3 November 2016). The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume II: The Middle Period Plays. Taylor & Francis. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-134-98114-4.

[15] William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.

[16] Franz J. L. Thimm (1866). The Literature of Germany: From Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed. Franz Thimm. p. 21.

[17] Dr Teresa Barnard (28 April 2013). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-4094-7533-0.

[18] Thomas Ward (1742). England's reformation ... A poem in four cantos ... The fifth edition. With marginal notes ... as also, the author's life, etc. printed, and sold by Hue Firstfire. p. 13.

[19] Sambrook, James (2004). "Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28620. Retrieved 2015-07-15. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[20] Nikolaos Chrissidis (10 August 2016). An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia. Cornell University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-60909-189-7.

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