1713 in literature

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The year 1713 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Scriblerus Club is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, Robert Harley, and Henry St. John. They meet at John Arbuthnot's house.
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found The Guardian, and Steele founds another short-lived periodical, The Englishman.

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 (vs. Collins)
George Berkeley - Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Henry Carey - Poems on Several Occasions (with "Sally in Our Alley" and Namby Pamby)
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 transl.)^[1]
Thomas Parnell - An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
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

Joseph Addison - Cato
John Gay - The Wife of Bath
Charles Johnson - The Successful Pyrate (set off a minor furore over the morality of portraying pirates on stage; actually a satire)
William Taverner - The Female Advocates