Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
Works published in other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 13 – Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1668), English poet
- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes
- March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (born 1650), French Protestant poet and historian
- March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
- June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
- September 23 – Jacques Basnage (born 1653), French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher
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