1714 in literature

Events from the year 1714 in literature.

Events

March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, includes Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley.
July 4 – The scholar Antonio Magliabechi bequeaths his personal library to his patron Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to serve as a public library for the city of Florence. In doing so he founds the National Central Library.
July 27 – Robert Harley is dismissed as Britain's Lord High Treasurer.
August 1 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain after the death of Queen Anne. This leads many writers to oppose the new Whig ministry, initiating the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment of Henry St. John. Samuel Garth publishes a poem in praise of Queen Anne; he subsequently becomes royal surgeon and is the first man to be knighted by George I.
August 12 – Jonathan Swift writes to Esther Vanhomrigh to tell her he is returning to Ireland. Soon afterwards, she follows.
unknown date – Moses ben Avraham Avinu is imprisoned in Halle for printing Hebrew texts with supposedly anti-Christian content, but escapes to Amsterdam.

Anonymous
*A Compleat Key to The Dispensary
*The Court of Atalantis
*The Ladies Tale
*The Ladies Library
John Arbuthnot
*A Continuation of the History of the Crown-Inn
*A Postscript to John Bull
Anne Dacier – Des Causes de la corruption du goût
Daniel Defoe – A Secret History of the White-Staff
William Diaper – An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace
Thomas Ellwood – The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood
Laurence Eusden – A Letter to Mr Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne
Sir John Fortescue – The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy
Charles Gildon – A New Rehearsal
Anthony Hamilton – Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont
William King et al. – The Persian and the Turkish Tales, Compleat
Gottfried Leibniz – La Monadologie
John Locke – The Works of John Locke
Bernard de Mandeville – The Fable of the Bees
Delarivier Manley – The Adventures of Rivella; or, The History of the Author of the Atalantis
"Captain" Alexander Smith – The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highway-men, Foot-pads, House-breakers, Shop-lifts, and Cheats...
Richard Steele
*The Crisis
*The Englishman
*The Lover
*Mr Steele's Apology for Himself and his Writings
*The Public Spirit of the Tories
*The Reader
Jonathan Swift – The Public Spirit of the Whigs
Simon Tyssot de Patot – Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé
Ned Ward – The Field-Spy
Edward Young – ''The Force of Religion''