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[edit] Events

[edit] Works published

• Joseph Addison, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Gay, Alexander Pope and Nicholas Rowe, among others, Ovid's Metamorphoses^[1]
• John Durant Breval, published anonymously, The Art of Dress^[1]
• Susanna Centlivre, published anonymously, An Epistle to the King of Sweden^[1]
• John Dennis, Remarks upon Mr Pope's Translation of Homer, prose criticism^[1]
• Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon and others, Poems by the Earl of Roscomon (sic)^[1]
• Elijah Fenton, Poems on Several Occasions^[1]
• Jane Holt (née Jane Wiseman), this volume published under the name "Mrs. Holt" and believed to be Jane Holt, A Fairy Tale Inscrib'd, to the Honourable Mrs. W—, with other Poems^[1]
• Thomas Parnell, Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice^[1]
• Alexander Pope:
  • Translator, Homer's Iliad, Book III this year, preceded by Book I in 1715, Book II in 1716 and to be followed by Books IV in 1718, and V-VI in 1720.^[1]
  • The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (with new material), including:
    • "Eloisa to Abelard"^[1]
    • "Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"^[1]
• Thomas Purney, A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral^[1] (part of the Pope/Philips quarrel)
• Thomas Tickell, published anonymously, An Epistle from a Lady in England; to a Gentleman at Avignon^[1]
• Ned Ward (also known as "Edward Ward")
  • British Wonders; or, A Poetical Description of the Several Prodigies [...] That Have Happen'd in Britain Since the Death of Queen Anne, published anonymously^[1]
  • A Collection of Historical and State Poems, Satyrs, Songs, and Epigrams^[1]

[edit] Births

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

• February 14 – Richard Owen Cambridge (died 1802), English poet
• November 25 – Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet and playwright (died 1777)
• December 16 – Elizabeth Carter (died 1806), English poet, classical scholar and translator; a Bluestocking
• date not known – Molla Panah Vagif (died 1797), Azerbaijani poet
• date not known – William Williams Pantycelyn (died 1791), Welsh poet, prose and hymn writer

[edit] Deaths

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

• Jane Wiseman (born c. 1682), English actress, poet and playwright
• William Diaper (born 1685), English poet
• Nicholas Noyes (born 1647), English Colonial American clergyman, one of those presiding over the Salem witch trials and a poet^[2]
• John Smith (born 1662), English poet and playwright

[edit] See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books

• [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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