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Events
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Works published
edit- Sir Richard Blackmore, published anonymously, The Nature of Man[1]
- John Dryden, translator, Metamorphoses, translated from the Latin original of Ovid[2]
- William King, An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes[1]
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- Jonathan Swift, editor, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, anthology, including 25 works by Swift
- Edward Ward, The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (originally published in six monthly parts, 1710–1711)[1]
- James Watson (Scottish editor), editor, Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems, Edinburgh (published from 1706 to 1711)[3]
Births
editDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 15 – Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (died 1740), German
- March 22 – Samuel Gotthold Lange (died 1781), German
- April 10 – John Gambold (died 1771), Welsh-born religious poet and bishop of the Moravian Church.
- May – Henry Taylor (died 1785), Church of England clergyman, religious writer and poet
- May 18 – Ruđer Bošković (died 1787), Ragusan polymath and poet
- October 17 – Jupiter Hammon (died sometime before 1806), English Colonial African American
Deaths
editBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (born 1636), French poet and critic
- September 4 – John Caryll (born 1625), exiled English poet, dramatist, and diplomat
- Cille Gad (born 1675), Norwegian female poet and scholar, of plague
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 240, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
- ^ "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)", article, The Burns Encyclopedia, online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009. Archived 2010-07-14 at the Wayback Machine 2009-07-21.
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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