1706 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• May 23 – The Battle of Ramillies, a victory for the British and their allies under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inspires several poets.

Works published

• Joseph Addison, The Campaign, on the victory at Blenheim
• Daniel Baker, The History of Job ^[1]
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Advice to the Poets, published anonymously ^[1]
• Stephen Clay, An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King: After the Battel of Ramilles, published anonymously; has been misattributed to Matthew Prior ^[1]
• William Congreve:
  • A Pindarique Ode ... On the Victorious Progress of Her Magesties Arms, Under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough ^[1]
  • Discourse on the Pindarique Ode, in which the author criticized Abraham Cowley's views ^[2]
• Daniel Defoe:
  • Caledonia ^[1]
  • Jure Divino, about the divine-right theory of monarchy ^[1]
• John Dennis, The Battle of Ramilla; or, the Power of Union ^[1]
• William Harison,Woodstock Park, ^[1] London : printed for Jacob Tonson
• Nicholas Noyes, "On Cotton Mather's Endeavors Toward the Christian Education of Negro Slaves", English Colonial America ^[3]
• John Philips:
  • Blenheim
  • Cerealia: An imitation of Milton, published anonymously, also attributed to Elijah Fenton ^[1]
• Thomas Tickell, Oxford, published anonymously, published this year, although the book states "1707" ^[1]
• James Watson, editor, A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems both ancient and modern, by several hands, Edinburgh (published this year through 1711) ^[4]
• Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae ^[5]

Births

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

• Joseph Green (died 1780, English Colonial American clergyman and poet ^[3]

Deaths

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

• January 29 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (born 1638), English poet and courtier
• June – Jacques Testu de Belval (born c. 1626), French ecclesiastic and poet
• November 15 (presumed) – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (died 1683), deposed Buddhist religious leader and Tibetan poet
• December 3 – Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (born 1637), German countess and hymn writer
• Also:
  • Luo Mu (born 1622), Chinese painter, poet and prose writer
  • John Phillips (born 1631), poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips, nephew of John Milton
  • Rahman Baba (born 1632), Indian Pashto poet
  • Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler (born 1657), German

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
2. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 194, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN   978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)". The Burns Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
5. Rivers, Isabel (2004). "Watts, Isaac (1674–1748)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28888 . Retrieved 2011-12-09.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

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