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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]
• Matthew Prior:
  • Down-Hall ^[4]
  • The Turtle and the Sparrow ^[4]
• 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

Memorial to Thomas d'Urfey at St James's Church, Piccadilly

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

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

• Poetry portal

• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. Mandeville, Bernard (1997). Hundert, E. J. (ed.). The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. p. 10. ISBN   0-87220-374-3.
2. 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
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-860634-6.
5. Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN   984-32-0576-6. OCLC   52727562 . Retrieved 10 January 2023.
6. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
7. Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.

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