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The year 1719 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Nicholas Rowe's widow receives a pension from King George I in recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia.
- Daniel Defoe launches the periodical The Manufacturer
- Richard Steele launches The Plebian (periodical).
New books
- Anonymous - Zulima
- Joseph Addison
- Maxims, Observations, and Reflections
- Notes upon the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost
- The Old Whig I
- The Old Whig II
- John Durant Breval
- Daniel Defoe
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Gildon - The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Mr. D -- DeF--, of London, Hosier (satire on Defoe)
- Eliza Haywood - Love in Excess
- Benjamin Hoadly - The Common Rights of Subjects, Defended
- Giles Jacob - The Poetical Register (biographies of playwrights, by themselves)
- Nicholas Rowe - Lucan's Pharsalia
- Isaac Watts - The Psalms of David (transl.)
- Edward Young - A Letter to Mr Tickell (in re Addison's death)
New drama
- Anonymous - Heroick Friendship (attrib. to Thomas Otway but unknown authorship)
- Thomas Betterton - The Bond-Man
- Colley Cibber - Ximena
- John Leigh - Kensington Gardens
- Richard Savage - Love in a Veil
- George Sewell - The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh
- Thomas Southerne - The Spartan Dame
- William Taverner - 'Tis Well If It Takes
- Edward Young - Busiris
Poetry
- Matthew Prior - Poems on Several Occasions
- Allan Ramsay - Content
- See also 1719 in poetry
Births
- May 30 - Sir Roger Newdigate (died 1806)
- July 4 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, dramatist (died 1797)
- October 17 - Jacques Cazotte (died 1792)
- November 23 - Spranger Barry, actor (died 1777)
- unknown date - John Boydell, publisher (died 1804)
Deaths
- June 17 - Joseph Addison (born 1672)
- September 7 - John Harris (writer) (born c.1666)
- December 2 - Pasquier Quesnel, theologian (born 1634)
- Dr. Samuel Garth, poet and physician
- John Flamsteed, Astronomer royal, colleague of Isaac Newton and Charles Boyle
- Maintenon, consort and belle of the French court
