1723 in poetry
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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.[1]
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[2]
- Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies[3]
- Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather[2]
Great Britain
- Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem[4]
- Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem[4]
- Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper[4]
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- Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly[4]
- Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.[4]
Works published in other languages
- Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali[5]
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French[6]
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[2]
- November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer[2]
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)[7]
- 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
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- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
Notes
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- ↑ a b c d Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, Template:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books
- ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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