# 1707 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1707.

## Events

* January – The publisher Edmund Curll announces he will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, even though the rights belong to someone else.
* March 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Beaux' Stratagem is first staged, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
* May 1 – The new sovereign Kingdom of Great Britain comes into being under the Acts of Union. It combines the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single realm under Anne, Queen of Great Britain. Supporters of this include Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.
* May 30 – Thomas Wilson, Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man, publishes Principles and Duties of Christianity... in English and Manks (Coyrie Sodjey), the first book in the Manx language.
* September 9 – Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock. Their literary marriage gains fame through their correspondence.

## New books
### Prose

* Anonymous
** Memoirs of the Court of England (translation)
** The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)
* Richard Baxter – The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter
* Thomas Brown – The Works of Mr Thomas Brown
* Anthony Collins – Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
* Jean de Beaugué – Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
* François Pétis de la Croix (translated and adapted) – Contes Turcs (Turkish Tales)
* Thomas D'Urfey – Stories, Moral and Comical
* Laurence Echard – The History of England vol. 1
* William Fleetwood – Chronicon Preciosum
* Aaron Hart – Urim v'tumim (the first book printed in Hebrew in London)
* Alain-René Lesage – Le Diable boiteux (The Devil upon Two Sticks)
* Edward Lhuyd – Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain...
* Delarivière Manley – The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (fiction)
* Isaac Newton – Arithmetica Universalis
* John Oldmixon – The Muses Mercury (periodical)
* Matthäus Schiner – A Philippick Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translated by John Toland)
* Hans Sloane – A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, v. 1
* Dr. Thomas Smith – Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum
* Jonathan Swift – A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
* Matthew Tindal – A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (sequel to 1706 work)
* Catherine Trotter – A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
* Isaac Watts – Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted)
* John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon

### Drama

* Joseph Addison – Rosamond (opera)
* Susanna Centlivre – The Platonick Lady
* Colley Cibber
** The Lady's Last Stake
** The Double Gallant
* Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Atrée et Thyeste
* George Farquhar – The Beaux' Stratagem
* Alain-René Lesage – Crispin rival de son maître
* Peter Anthony Motteux – Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera)
* Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert
* Nahum Tate – Injur'd Love (an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil)

### Poetry

* Samuel Cobb – Poems on Several Occasions
* John Pomfret – Quae Rara, Chara (poem)
* Nicholas Rowe – A Poem Upon the Late Glorious Successes
* Nahum Tate – The Triumph of Union

## Births

* January 13 – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, English writer (died 1762)
* January 28 (baptized) – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (died 1775)
* February 14 – Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (died 1777)
* February 25 – Carlo Goldoni, Venetian dramatist (died 1793)
* April 20 – Robert Foulis, Scottish printer and publisher (died 1776)
* April 22 – Henry Fielding, English novelist (died 1754)
* June 22 (baptized) – Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanic writer and illustrator (died 1758)
* August 14 – Johann August Ernesti, German philologist (died 1781)
* September 7 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
* December 18 – Charles Wesley, English hymnist, religious writer and cleric (died 1788)
* unknown date – Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, kabbalist and philosopher (died 1746)

## Deaths

* January 20 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (born 1659)
* April 20 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (born 1677)
* June 23 – John Mill, English theologian and exegete (born c. 1645)
* August 17 – Petter Dass, Norwegian poet (born 1647)
* September 15 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (born 1663)
* September 23 – John Tutchin, English controversialist (born c. 1660–64)
* September 24 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
* December 27 – Jean Mabillon, French scholar (born 1632)