1716 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1716.

Events

April 5 – Anne Lefèvre, Madame Dacier, meets Antoine Houdar de la Motte in person.
May – Voltaire is exiled to Tulle as a result of his lampoon on the regent of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
June 21 – Work begins on construction of the Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor; it will be completed in 1751.
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*Poet John Byrom returns to Britain to teach his own system of shorthand.
*Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior by publishing more of the poet's works without permission.
*The first printed version of the Epic of King Gesar, a Mongolian text, is published in Beijing.

Richard Blackmore – Essays upon Several Subjects vol. i
Thomas Browne – Christian Morals
Francis Chute – The Petticoat
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – Several Letters... to a Young Man at the University
John Dennis – A True Character of Mr. Pope, and his Writings
Theophilus Evans – Drych y Prif Oesoedd
Amédée-François Frézier – Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou et de Brésil
John Oldmixon – Memoirs of Ireland from the Restoration to the Present Times
Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution
Alexander Pope – The Iliad of Homer vol. ii
Humphrey Prideaux – The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations
Jean de la Roque – Voyage dans l’Arabie heureuse
Andreas Rüdiger – Göttliche Physik
George Sewell – A Vindication of the English Stage
Johann Georg Walch – Historia critica Latinae linguae
Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing et al. – ''Kangxi Dictionary ''