1703 in literature

Events from the year 1703 in literature. Events July 29–31 – Daniel Defoe is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, as part of a sentence for seditious libel, after publishing his satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November. unknown date – Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London. New books Prose Joseph Addison – A Letter from Italy Abel Boyer – The History of the Reign of Queen Anne Gilbert Burnet – A Third Collection of Several Tracts and Discourses Edmund Calamy – A Defence of Moderate Non-Conformity Jeremy Collier – Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House William Dampier – A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699 Daniel Defoe A Brief Explanation of a Late Pamphlet, entitled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters A Dialogue Between a Dissenter and the Observator A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon Hymn to the Pillory More Reformation: A satyr upon himself The Shortest Way to Peace and Union A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-man John Dunton – The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues (satire on Defoe) Thomas Hearne – Reliquiae Bodleianae George Hickes – Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus Benjamin Hoadly – The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan – New Voyages to North America Bernard de Mandeville – Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine Leonty Magnitsky – Arithmetic (Арифметика) Henry Maundrell – A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 Ned Ward – The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb (against Republicanism) Benjamin Whichcote – Moral and Religious Aphorisms