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      This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708.


      Events


      July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.
      unknown date – Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.


      New books




      = Prose

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      Joseph Addison – The Present State of the War (pro-Marlborough tract)
      Francis Atterbury – Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions
      Joseph Bingham – Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, vol. 1
      Laurent Bordelon – Mital; ou Aventures incroyables
      Elizabeth Burnet – A Method of Devotion
      Jeremy Collier – An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England, vol. 1
      Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury – A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (opposing radical Protestantism)
      Edmund Curll – The Charitable Surgeon
      Anne Dacier (Anne Lefèvre) – Homer's Odyssey (prose, first translation into French)
      John Downes – Roscius Anglicanus (historical review of the stage)
      John Fisher, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester (executed 1535) – Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (originally delivered 1509; published with an anonymous preface by Thomas Baker)
      John Gay – Wine
      Charles Gildon
      Libertas Triumphans (re Battle of Oudenarde)
      The New Metamorphosis (fiction)
      John Harris – Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1 (2nd edition)
      Aaron Hill & Nahum Tate – The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, for the Armour of Achilles (from Ovid)
      Benjamin Hoadly – The Unhappiness of the Present Establishment, and the Unhappiness of Absolute Monarchy
      Anne de La Roche-Guilhem – La Foire de Beaucaire
      François Leguat – Voyage et avantures de François Leguat et de ses compagnons, en deux isles désertes des Indes orientales (A new voyage to the East-Indies)
      John Locke (died 1704) – Some Familiar Letters
      Simon Ockley – The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt by the Saracens (vol. 1 of History of the Saracens)
      John Oldmixon – The British Empire in America
      Jonathan Swift
      Predictions for the Year 1708
      The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (together with part of the "Bickerstaff Papers")
      An Argument against Abolishing Christianity


      = Drama

      =
      Thomas Baker – The Fine Lady's Airs (first performed December 18)
      Charles Goring – Irene
      Peter Anthony Motteux – Love's Triumph (opera)
      Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert
      William Taverner – The Disappointment
      Lewis Theobald – The Persian Princess


      = Poetry

      =

      Richard Blackmore – The Kit-Cats
      Ebenezer Cooke – The Sot-Weed Factor (poem)
      Elijah Fenton – Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
      William King – The Art of Cookery (poem)
      Matthew Prior – Poems on Several Occasions (see also 1707)


      Births


      April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (died 1754)
      July 8 – Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, French dramatist (died 1775)
      August 29 – Olof von Dalin, Swedish poet (died 1763)
      September 2 – André le Breton, French publisher (died 1779)
      October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss biologist and poet (died 1777)
      unknown dates
      Richard Dawes, English classical scholar (died 1766)
      Thomas Seward, English poet (died 1790)


      Deaths


      January 1 – Johannes Kelpius, German polymath (born 1673)
      March 4 – Thomas Ward, English Catholic writer (born 1652)
      March 5 – Charles Le Gobien, French Jesuit writer (born 1653)
      March 15 – William Walsh, English poet and critic (born 1662)
      October 11 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German philosopher (born 1651)
      October 21
      Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian Baroque writer (born 1659)
      Christian Weise, German dramatist and poet (born 1642)
      October 22 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (born 1636)
      November 15 – Gregory Hascard, English religious writer and cleric (year of birth unknown)
      unknown date – Nikolai Spathari (Nicolae Milescu), Moldavian travel writer and diplomat (born 1636)


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