1715 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Nicholas Rowe made British Poet Laureate
[edit] Works published
[edit] United Kingdom
- Susanna Centlivre, A Poem. Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland. Upon His Ascension to the Throne[1]
- Charles Cotton, The Genuine Works o9f Charles Cotton, posthumously published[2]
- Samuel Croxall, The Vision[2]
- Daniel Defoe, published anonymously, attributed to Defoe, A Hymn to the Mob[2]
- Alexander Pope:
- The Temple of Fame[2]
- Translator, The Iliad of Homer, Volume I (Books 1–4), followed by Volume II (Biooks 5–8) in 1716, Volume III (Books 9–12) in 1717, Volume IV (Books 13–16) in 1718, Volume V (Books 14–21) and Volume VI (Books 22–24), both in 1720[2]
- Matthew Prior, Solomon, or The Vanity of the World, a didactic poem[3]
- Thomas Tickell, translation, The First Book of Homer's Iliad[2]
- Isaac Watts, Divine Songs for the Use of Children, including "How doth the little busy Bee"; 10 editions published by 1753[2]
[edit] Other
- Antoine Houdart de La Motte, Réflexions sur la critique, attacking those who admired the ancients uncritically; criticism in France[4]
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 12 – William Whitehead (died 1785), English poet and playwright
- March 7 – Ewald Christian von Kleist (died 1759), German poet
- May 4 – Richard Graves (died 1804), English poet and novelist
- July 4 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (died 1769), German poet
- November 5 – John Brown (died 1766), English clergyman, author and poet
- Also:
- Richard Jago (died 1781), English clergyman and poet
- Jakob Immanuel Pyra (died 1744), German poet
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 19 — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (born 1661), English poet and statesman
- July 30 — Nahum Tate, Irish poet (born 1652)
- Mary Monck
[edit] 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
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ward, Sir Adolphus William et al., editors, The Cambridge history of English literature, Volume 10, p 482, New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons (this edition; also Cambridge, England: University Press) 1913, retrieved via Google Books on January 10, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
- ^ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 437, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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