Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
-- From Richard Blackmore's The Kit-Kats. A Poem, Chapter 6, published this year and referring to the Kit-Kat Club in which the influential publisher Jacob Tonson was a prominent member. Tonson was influential in getting recognition for many poets in his series of anthologies.
Events
Works published
- Edmund Arwaker, Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade
- Sir Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats
- Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"), The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts, and Constitution of the Country; and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolics, Entertainments, and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America, a satirical poem by an English Colonial American in Maryland published in England
- Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
- John Gay, Wine, published anonymously
- Charles Gildon, Libertas Triumphans, on the battle of Oudenarde, July 11
- Aaron Hill, The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, published anonymously, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses
- William King, The Art of Cookery
- John Philips, Cyder
- Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1709"
- Benjamin Tompson, The Gramarrian's Funeral, English Colonial America
- Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 23 â Friedrich von Hagedorn (died 1754), German poet
- July 19 â Philip Francis, (died 1773), Anglo-Irish translator, poet and playwright
- August 29 â Olof von Dalin (died 1763), Swedish poet
- October 16 â Albrecht von Haller (died 1777), Swiss physiologist and poet
- December 8 â Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (died 1759), Welsh-born English diplomat and satirical poet
- December 18 â John Collier (died 1786) English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym "Tim(othy) Bobbin"
- Also:
- Georg Heinrich Behr (died 1761), German poet
- John Seccomb (died c. 1783), Colonial American clergyman and poet
- Elizabeth Scott (died 1776), Colonial American poet
- Thomas Seward (died 1790), English poet
- Jane Turell (died 1735), Colonial American poet, daughter of Benjamin Colman
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes