New Books
- Corporate authorship - Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Elias Ashmole - Memoirs
- John Durant Breval - The Art of Dress
- Susanna Centlivre - An Epistle to the King of Sweden
- Anthony Collins - A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty
- John Dennis - Remarks upon Mr Pope's Translation of Homer
- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon - Poems by the Earl of Roscomon
- Elijah Fenton - Poems on Several Occasions
- John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - Three Hours After Marriage
- Benjamin Hoadly - The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church of Christ (part of the Bangorian Controversy
- Jane Holt - A Fairy Tale
- William Law - The Bishop Bangor's Late Sermon (answer to Hoadly)
- Thomas Parnell - Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice
- Alexander Pope - The Iliad of Homer vol. iii
- - The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (with new material)
- Matthew Prior - The Dove
- Thomas Purney - A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral (part of the Pope/Philips quarrel)
- Richard Savage - The Convocation; or, A Battle of Pamphlets (satire on the Bangorian Controversy)
- Thomas Tickell - An Epistle from a Lady in England
- John Toland - The State-Anatomy of Great Britain
- Thomas Traherne - Hexameron (on creationism)
- Joseph Trapp - The Real Nature of the Church or Kingdom of Christ (part of the Bangorian Controversy)
- Ned Ward - British Wonders
- - A Collection of Historical and State Poems
- Leonard Welsted - Palaemon to Caelia, at Bath
Read more about this topic: 1717 In Literature
Famous quotes containing the word books:
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
—Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)
“... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want. You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)