1703 in poetry

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Events

Main article: 1703

Works published

• Lady Mary Chudleigh, Poems upon Several Occasions
• William Congreve, A Hymn to Harmony ^[1]
• Daniel Defoe:
  • A true collection of the writings of the author of the True Born English-man
  • A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon, published anonymously, has been attributed to Defoe ^[1]
  • More Reformation: A satyr upon himself ^[1]
• Sarah Fyge Egerton, Poems on Several Occasions, prefatory verses by Susanna Centlivre ^[1]
• Bernard Mandeville, Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine, published anonymously ^[1]

Births

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

• March 5 (n. s.) – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky (died 1768), Russian poet
• June 28 (n.s.) – John Wesley (died 1791), English cleric and Christian theologian, founder of Methodism, psalmist and hymnist
• October 2 – Fukuda Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, 千代尼 (died 1775), Japanese poet of the Edo period and a prominent haiku poet (a woman)
• Date unknown – Gilbert West (died 1756), English poet and translator
• Approximate date
  • Samuel Boyse (died 1749), Irish poet ^[2]
  • Henry Brooke (died 1783), Irish poet, novelist and dramatist

Deaths

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

• October 14 - Thomas Kingo (born 1634), Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
2. Sambrook, James (2004). "Boyse, Samuel (1702/3?–1749)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3152 . Retrieved 2013-12-03.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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