1717 in literature

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The year 1717 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and is banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans. While in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus").
The Irish poet Hugh Mac Cuirtin (or Aodh Buidhe Mac Cuirtin) is imprisoned in Dublin.

Corporate authorship - Ovid's Metamorphoses
Elias Ashmole - Memoirs
John Durant Breval - The Art of Dress
Susanna Centlivre - An Epistle to the King of Sweden
Anthony Collins - A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty
John Dennis - Remarks upon Mr Pope's Translation of Homer
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon - Poems by the Earl of Roscomon
Elijah Fenton - Poems on Several Occasions
John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - Three Hours After Marriage
Benjamin Hoadly - The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church of Christ (part of the Bangorian Controversy
Jane Holt - A Fairy Tale
William Law - The Bishop Bangor's Late Sermon (answer to Hoadly)
Thomas Parnell - Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice
Alexander Pope - The Iliad of Homer vol. iii
- - The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (with new material)
Matthew Prior - The Dove
Thomas Purney - A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral (part of the Pope/Philips quarrel)
Richard Savage - The Convocation; or, A Battle of Pamphlets (satire on the Bangorian Controversy)
Thomas Tickell - An Epistle from a Lady in England
John Toland - The State-Anatomy of Great Britain
Thomas Traherne - Hexameron (on creationism)
Joseph Trapp - The Real Nature of the Church or Kingdom of Christ (part of the Bangorian Controversy)
Ned Ward - British Wonders
- - A Collection of Historical and State Poems
Leonard Welsted - Palaemon to Caelia, at Bath

John Durant Breval (as "Mr. Gay") - The Confederates (attack on John Gay, Alexander Pope, and the other members of the Scribblerus Club)
Christopher Bullock - The Perjuror
Susanna Centlivre - The Cruel Gift
Benjamin Griffin - The Masquerade
Charles Johnson - The Sultaness
Delarivière Manley - Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain
William Taverner - The Artful Husband
- - The Artful Wife