1723 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• July – A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.

Works published in English

English colonies in America

• Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of [. . .] Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia
• Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies
• Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather

Great Britain

• Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem
• Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper
• Matthew Prior:
• Down-Hall
• The Turtle and the Sparrow
• Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly
• Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.

Works published in other languages

• Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali
• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 27 – Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian
• September 30 – William Hutton (died 1815), English local historian and poet
• November 3 – Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet
• November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer

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

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

• http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto