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Events
- First printing of Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th century Cretan Greek romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), in Venice.
Works published
- Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips[1]
- Samuel Croxall, An original canto of Spencer: design'd as part of his Faerie Queene, but never printed (political satire)[2]
- Abel Evans, Vertumnus[1]
- Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea, "Written by a Lady", Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions[1]
- John Gay:
- Alexander Pope:
- Richard Steere, The Daniel Catcher, including "Earth Felicities", a poem in blank verse, an unusual form for the time, and "Caelestial Embassy", a nativity poem that criticized the Puritan rejection of Christmas, English Colonial America[4]
- Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated[1]
- Joseph Trapp, Peace
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous[5]
- Edward Young:
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- September 13 – Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti (died 1757), Italian poet, orator and philosopher
- September 18 – Samuel Cobb (born 1675), English poet and critic
- December 18 (bapt.) – Thomas Gilbert (died 1766), English satirical poet and rake
- Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched (died 1762), German
- Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (died 1774), Indian, Sindhi-language poet[6]
- 1713 or 1714 – George Smith of Chichester (died 1776), English landscape painter and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 14 – William Harrison (born 1685), English poet and diplomat
- May 20 – Thomas Sprat (born 1635), English bishop and poet
- September 6 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (born 1632), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ "An Original Canto of Spencer". English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 326.
- ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Web page titled "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 11, 2009. Archived August 8, 2010, at the Wayback Machine 2009-05-02.
- ^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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