1699 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1699. Events January 27 – Jonathan Swift is out of work after his employer, Sir William Temple, dies, leaving Swift £100. May 4 – The beginning of the fictional Gulliver's Travels (1726). June 1 – Joseph Addison receives a grant or pension from the Crown, enabling him to travel abroad. New books Prose Richard Bentley – A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (prev. pub. in William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning) Samuel Clarke Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and the Canon of the New Testament Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation and Repentance Jeremy Collier – A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage (see 1698 in literature) Anne Dacier (Anne Lefèvre) – Homer's Iliad (prose, first translation into French) William Dampier – Voyages and Descriptions (vol. ii) John Dunton – The Dublin Scuffle George Farquhar – The Adventures of Covent-Garden François Fénelon (anonymously) – Les Aventures de Télémaque ("The Adventures of Telemachus") Samuel Garth – The Dispensary (satire by one of Pope's mentors) John Hughes – The Court of Neptune George Keith – The Deism of William Penn, and his Brethren William King Dialogues of the Dead (in support of Charles Boyle) The Furmetary A Journey to London Gerard Langbaine – The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (cont.