1715 in literature

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The year 1715 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
Peter the Great takes lessons in maritime affairs from Hermann Boerhaave, before departing for Holland.
The 15, a Jacobite rising. The Battle of Preston.
The death of Louis XIV of France leads to the accession of his infant son.

Joseph Addison - The Free-Holder (periodical)
Jane Barker - Exilius; or, The Banished Roman
Richard Bentley - A Sermon upon Popery
Charles Cotton - The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton
Samuel Croxall - The Vision
Daniel Defoe - An Appeal to Honour and Justice
- - The Family Instructor
- - A Hymn to the Mob
Elizabeth Elstob - The Rudiments of Grammar
Charles Montagu - The Works and Life of the Late Earl of Halifax
Alexander Pope - The Temple of Fame (based on Chaucer)
- - The Iliad of Homer vol. i.
Jonathan Richardson - An Essay on the Theory of Painting
Alexander Smith ("Captain Alexander Smith") - The Secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties, Ladies of Quality, and Jilts
Richard Steele - The Englishman: Second Series (periodical)
- - Town-Talk (periodical)
William Symson - A New Voyage to the East Indies (pseudonymous)
Thomas Tickell - The First Book of Homer's Iliad
Isaac Watts - Divine Songs
- - A Guide to Prayer

Christopher Bullock - The Slip
- - A Woman's Revenge (adapted from Aphra Behn)
Henry Carey - The Contrivances
Susanna Centlivre - The Gotham Election (unacted for political content)
John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - What d'ye call it?
Benjamin Griffin - Injured Virtue; or, The Virgin Martyr
- - Love in a Sack
Charles Molloy - The Perplex'd Couple
Nicholas Rowe -The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey
Lewis Theobald - The Perfidious Brother (plagiarized)
John Vanbrugh - The Country House