1713 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1713. Events March 12 – Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found the short-lived The Guardian; in the same year, Steele founds another periodical, ostensibly as a sequel to it, the likewise short-lived The Englishman. April 14 – The first performance is given in London of Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic. October – Alexander Pope announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer. unknown date – Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th-century Cretan romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), is printed, for the first time, in Venice. New books Prose 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 (see Collins below) George Berkeley – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux – Dialogue sur les héros de roman Robert Challe – Les Illustres Françaises (The Illustrious French Lovers) 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 translation) Henri Joutel – Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique (Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684–1687) Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe 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