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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1705.

Events

  • April/May – Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch.
  • July 29 – Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai.
  • October 7 – William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much of his poetry.
  • October 30 – John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy, adapted from the French, is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket.
  • December 27 – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre.
  • Claude Pierre Goujet, religious historian and Jansenist, enters holy orders.
  • William Walsh begins a correspondence with Alexander Pope.
  • Work begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed by the playwright John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough.

New books

Prose

  • Joseph Addison – Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
  • Mary Astell – The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church
  • Dimitrie Cantemir – Historia Hieroglyphica (the first novel to use the Romanian language)
  • George Cheyne – Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (deist)
  • Samuel Clarke – A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
  • Mary Davys – The Fugitive
  • Daniel Defoe
  • The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
  • A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman
  • John Dunton – The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London (humor)
  • Edmund Gibson – Family-Devotion
  • Charles Gildon – The Deist's Manual
  • Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier – La Tour ténébreuse, et les jours lumineux: contes anglois
  • Bernard de Mandeville – The Grumbling Hive (pirated edition)
  • Delarivière Manley – The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman à clef)
  • John Philips
  • Blenheim
  • The Splendid Shilling
  • Katherine Philips – Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus
  • John Toland – Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church

Drama

  • Thomas Baker – Hampstead Heath
  • Susannah Centlivre
  • The Gamester (anonymously)
  • The Basset-Table
  • Colley Cibber – The Careless Husband
  • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Idoménée
  • John Dennis – Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure
  • George Granville – The British Enchanters
  • William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston – The Lawyer’s Fortune or Love in a Hollow Tree
  • Peter Anthony Motteux
  • The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser
  • Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera)
  • William Mountfort – Zelmane
  • Mary Pix (attributed) – The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's All's Lost by Lust)
  • Nicholas Rowe – Ulysses
  • Richard Steele – The Tender Husband
  • John Vanbrugh –
  • The Confederacy
  • The Mistake

Poetry

  • Richard Blackmore – Eliza
  • Daniel Defoe
  • The Double Welcome
  • The Dyet of Poland
  • Complete Tang Poems
  • Charles Johnson – The Queen; a Pindaric Ode
  • Matthew Prior – An English Padlock
  • Ned Ward – Hudibras Redidivus
  • Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae

See also 1705 in poetry

Births

  • January 21 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (died 1760)
  • February 13 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Polish dramatist (died 1753)
  • May – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (died 1758)
  • June 21 – David Hartley, English philosopher (died 1757)
  • September 2 – Abraham Tucker (Edward Search), English philosopher (died 1774)
  • October 29 – Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, German historian (died 1783)
  • November 23 – Thomas Birch, English historian (died 1766)
  • probable – Stephen Duck, English poet (died 1756)

Deaths

  • January 4 – Madame d'Aulnoy, French author of fairy tales (born c. 1650)
  • January 10 – Étienne Pavillon, French lawyer and poet (born 1632)
  • February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (born 1635)
  • April 2 – John Howe, English theologian (born 1630)
  • May 5 – Johann Ernst Glück, German writer and translator (born 1654)
  • June 10 – Michael Wigglesworth, English poet (born 1631)
  • October 17 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salonnière (born 1620)
  • November 10 – Justine Siegemund, German writer on midwifery (born 1636)

References