1722 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1721 in literature, other events of 1722, 1723 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Voltaire and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau meet and quarrel at Brussels.
• Ten-year-old Jean-Jacques Rousseau is abandoned by his father, Isaac.

New Books

• Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
• A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe

Births

• April 11 - Christopher Smart, English poet (died 1771)
• September 22 - John Home, Scottish dramatist (died 1808)
• Joseph Warton, English poet and critic (died 1800)

Deaths

• March 11 - John Toland, philosopher (born 1670)
• September 18 - André Dacier, French scholar