# 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

### Drama

* Anonymous – The Apparition
* Joseph Addison – Cato, a Tragedy
* José de Cañizares – Don Juan de Espina en Milán
* John Gay – The Wife of Bath
* Charles Shadwell – The Merry Wives of Broad Street
* William Taverner – The Female Advocates

### Poetry

* Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions (includes "Sally in Our Alley" and "Namby Pamby")
* Anne Finch – Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
* Alexander Pope
** Windsor Forest
** Ode for Musick
* Edward Young
** An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne
** A Poem on the Last Day
See also 1713 in poetry

## Births

* January 13 – Charlotte Charke (Charlotte Cibber), English novelist, dramatist and actress (died 1760)
* February 20 – Anna Maria Elvia, Swedish poet (died 1784)
* April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (died 1796)
* June 11 – Edward Capell, English Shakespeare scholar (died 1781)
* July 9 – John Newbery, English publisher and writer for children (died 1767)
* October 5 – Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist (died 1784)
* October 25 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (née de Mézières), French novelist and actress (died 1792)
* November 24 – Laurence Sterne, Irish-born novelist and cleric (died 1768)
* December 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classicist and critic (died 1785)

## Deaths

* January 5 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
* January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader and religious writer (born 1637)
* May 20 – Thomas Sprat, English writer, poet and bishop (born 1635)
* September 11 – Johannes Voet, Dutch jurist and legal writer (born 1647)
* September 18 – Samuel Cobb, English poet and critic (born 1675)
* October 20 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician and writer (born 1652)
* October 30 – John Barret, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (born 1631)
* December 14 – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal (born 1641)