Birth of John Arbuthnot. John Bunyan, Grace Abounding; John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Indian Emperor, Of Dramatick Poesy; John Mi

Birth of William Congreve. Milton, The History of Britain; Pascal, Pensées; Izaac Walton, Lives.

Births of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. Buckingham, Rehearsal; Marvell, Rehearsal Transpros’d (Pt. II, 1673).

William Wycherley, Country Wife.

Swift, 'Ode. To the King'.

Writes ‘When I come to be Old’. November: Swift’s edition of Temple’s Letters (dated 1700) is published.

Returns to Dublin (June).

Berkeley, New Theory of Vision.
Manley, The New Atalantis.
Ambrose Philips, ‘Pastorals’ and Pope, ‘Pastorals’, published in the Tonson Poetical Miscellanies VI.
Prior, Poems on Several Occasions.
Nicholas Rowe’s Shakespeare (1709-10).
Shaftesbury, The Moralists.

Swift arrives in London on 1 September, travelling on behalf of the Church of Ireland soliciting for a remission of some financial imposts on the clergy of the Church of Ireland
Begins epistolary diary known as 'Journal to Stella', 1710-13
Meets Robert Harley, leader of the new Tory government (October).
Still dining regularly with Addison and Steele;
Takes over pro-government paper, The Examiner (November).

Samuel Clements, Faults on Both Sides.
Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge.
September: Addison begins The Whig Examiner.
Bayle, Dictionary, first English. edn.
Congreve, Collected Works.
Manley, Memoirs of Europe.

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, printed by John Morphew. TS 2(1a). Contents:

1. A DISCOURSE OF THE Contests and Dissentions Between the NOBLES and the COMMONS IN ATHENS and ROME, WITH THE Consequences they had upon both those STATES.
2. THE SENTIMENTS OF A Church of England - Man With Respect to RELIGION and GOVERNMENT.
3. AN ARGUMENT To prove that the Abolishing of CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND, May as things now stand, be attended with some Inconveniencies, and perhaps not produce those many good Effects proposed thereby.
4. A PROJECT FOR THE Advancement of Religion, AND THE Reformation of Manners. By a Person of QUALITY. Written in the Year, 1709. TO THE Countess of BERKELEY.
5. A MEDITATION UPON A Broom - Stick. According to the Style and Manner of the Honourable Robert Boyl's Meditations.
6. Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting.
7. A Tritical Essay UPON THE Faculties of the Mind.
8. PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1708. Wherein the Month and Day of the Month are set down, the Persons named, and the great Actions and Events of next Year particularly related, as they will come to pass.
9. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT Of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions. Being an ACCOUNT Of the Death of Mr. PARTRIGE, the Almanack - maker. Upon the 29th Instant.
10. A VINDICATION OF Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; AGAINST What is Objected to Him by Mr. Partrige, in his Almanack for the present Year, 1709. By the said ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Esq;
11. A Famous Prediction OF MERLIN, THE BRITISH Wizard. Written above a Thousand Years ago, and relating to this Present Year, 1709. With Explanatory Notes. By T. N. Philomath
12. A LETTER From a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, to a Member of the House of Commons in England, concerning the SACRAMENTAL TEST.
13. VERSES Wrote in a LADY'S Ivory Table - Book
14. TO THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE Lords Justices of IRELAND. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who must Starve, and Die a Maid if it miscarries
15. Lady B - B - finding in the Authors Room some Verses Unfinished, underwrit a Stanza of her own, with Railery upon him, which gave Occasion to this Ballade. August, 1702. To the Tune of the Cutpurse
16. V — 's HOUSE Built from the Ruins of White - Hall that was Burnt.
17. THE DESCRIPTION OF A Salamander.
18. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON. Imitated, From the Eighth Book of OVID.
19. TO Mrs. BIDDY FLOYD
20. THE HISTORY OF V -'s House
21. A Grubstreet ELEGY On the supposed Death of PATRIGE THE ALMANACK - MAKER.
22. Apollo Outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. FINCH, under her Name of Ardelia
23. A DESCRIPTION OF THE MORNING
24. A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER
25. THE VIRTUES OF Said Hamet the MAGICIAN's ROD.

Conduct of the Allies (November).

Pope, Essay on Criticism.
Steele, Tatlerii, final number, January.
Addison and Steele, Spectator (1 March 1711 - 6 December 1712).
Shaftesbury, Characteristicks.

Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue (May).
Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty (August).

Pope, Rape of the Lock (2-canto version).
Arbuthnot, Proposal for an Art of Political Lying.

Mr. C[olli]ns’s Discourse of Free-Thinking, put into Plain English.
Importance of the Guardian Considered (October).
Composes ‘Cadenus and Vanessa’.

Pope, Windsor-Forest.
Gay, Rural Sports.
Parnell, Essay on the Different Styles of Poetry.
Addison, Cato.
Steele, The Guardian, and The Englishman.