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The year 1708 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

The Battle of Oudenarde
Joseph Trapp becomes Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Edward Lhuyd becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society.

New books

Joseph Addison - The Present State of the War (pro-Marlborough tract)

Edmund Arwaker - Truth in Fiction (fables)

Francis Atterbury - Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions

Joseph Bingham - Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, vol. 1

Richard Blackmore - The Kit-Cats

Jeremy Collier - An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England (vol. 1)

Ebenezer Cook - The Sot-Weed Factor

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (contra radical Protestantism)

Edmund Curll - The Charitable Surgeon

John Downes - Roscius Anglicanus (a historical review of the stage)

Elijah Fenton - Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems

Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (with a preface by Thomas Baker)

John Gay - Wine

Charles Gildon - Libertas Triumphans (re Battle of Oudenarde)

- The New Metamorphosis (fiction)

John Harris - Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1 (2nd edition)

Aaron Hill - 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

William King - The Art of Cookery (poem)

Anne de La Roche-Guilhem - La Foire de Beaucaire

John Locke - Some Familiar Letters (posth.)

Simon Ockley - The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Aegypt by the Saracens (vol. 1 of History of the Saracens)

Matthew Prior - Poems on Several Occasions (see 1707 for the vexatious publication)

Jonathan Swift - Predictions for the Year 1708

- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions (together, part of the "Bickerstaff Papers")
- An Argument against Abolishing Christianity

New drama

Thomas Baker - The Fine Lady's Airs

Peter Anthony Motteux - Love's Triumph (opera)

Nicholas Rowe - The Royal Convert

Births

April 23 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (died 1754)

date unknown

Olof von Dalin, poet
Richard Dawes, English classical scholar (died 1766)
Thomas Seward, English poet
Samuel Boyse
Laetitia Pilkington (poss.)

Deaths

October 11 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, philosopher (born 1651)

October 22 - Hermann Witsius, theologian (born 1636)

date unknown

Johannes Kelpius, polymath (born 1673)
Nicolae Milescu, travel writer (born 1636)
William Walsh, poet and critic (born 1663)

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