1707 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1707.

Events

 * January – The publisher Edmund Curll announces he will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, even though the rights belong to someone else.
 * March 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Beaux' Stratagem is first staged, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
 * May 1 – The new sovereign Kingdom of Great Britain comes into being under the Acts of Union. It combines the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single realm under Anne, Queen of Great Britain. Supporters of this include Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.
 * May 30 – Thomas Wilson, Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man, publishes Principles and Duties of Christianity... in English and Manks (Coyrie Sodjey), the first book in the Manx language.
 * September 9 – Richard Steele marries Mary Scurlock. Their literary marriage gains fame through their correspondence.

Prose

 * Anonymous
 * Memoirs of the Court of England (translation)
 * The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King-maker (transl.)
 * Richard Baxter – The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter
 * Thomas Brown – The Works of Mr Thomas Brown
 * Anthony Collins – Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
 * Jean de Beaugué – Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby)
 * François Pétis de la Croix (translated and adapted) – Contes Turcs (Turkish Tales)
 * Thomas D'Urfey – Stories, Moral and Comical
 * Laurence Echard – The History of England vol. 1
 * William Fleetwood – Chronicon Preciosum
 * Aaron Hart – Urim v'tumim (the first book printed in Hebrew in London)
 * Alain-René Lesage – Le Diable boiteux (The Devil upon Two Sticks)
 * Edward Lhuyd – Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain...
 * Delarivière Manley – The Lady's Pacquet of Letters (fiction)
 * Isaac Newton – Arithmetica Universalis
 * John Oldmixon – The Muses Mercury (periodical)
 * Matthäus Schiner – A Philippick Oration to Incite the English Against the French (translated by John Toland)
 * Hans Sloane – A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, v. 1
 * Dr. Thomas Smith – Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum
 * Jonathan Swift – A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
 * Matthew Tindal – A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (sequel to 1706 work)
 * Catherine Trotter – A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
 * Isaac Watts – Hymns and Spiritual Songs (frequently reprinted)
 * John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon

Drama

 * Joseph Addison – Rosamond (opera)
 * Susanna Centlivre – The Platonick Lady
 * Colley Cibber
 * The Lady's Last Stake
 * The Double Gallant
 * Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Atrée et Thyeste
 * George Farquhar – The Beaux' Stratagem
 * Alain-René Lesage – Crispin rival de son maître
 * Peter Anthony Motteux – Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (opera)
 * Nicholas Rowe – The Royal Convert
 * Nahum Tate – Injur'd Love (an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil)

Poetry

 * Samuel Cobb – Poems on Several Occasions
 * John Pomfret – Quae Rara, Chara (poem)
 * Nicholas Rowe – A Poem Upon the Late Glorious Successes
 * Nahum Tate – The Triumph of Union

Births

 * January 13 – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, English writer (died 1762)
 * January 28 (baptized) – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (died 1775)
 * February 14 – Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (died 1777)
 * February 25 – Carlo Goldoni, Venetian dramatist (died 1793)
 * April 20 – Robert Foulis, Scottish printer and publisher (died 1776)
 * April 22 – Henry Fielding, English novelist (died 1754)
 * June 22 (baptized) – Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanic writer and illustrator (died 1758)
 * August 14 – Johann August Ernesti, German philologist (died 1781)
 * September 7 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher (died 1788)
 * December 18 – Charles Wesley, English hymnist, religious writer and cleric (died 1788)
 * unknown date – Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, kabbalist and philosopher (died 1746)

Deaths

 * January 20 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (born 1659)
 * April 20 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (born 1677)
 * June 23 – John Mill, English theologian and exegete (born c. 1645)
 * August 17 – Petter Dass, Norwegian poet (born 1647)
 * September 15 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (born 1663)
 * September 23 – John Tutchin, English controversialist (born c. 1660–64)
 * September 24 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
 * December 27 – Jean Mabillon, French scholar (born 1632)