1714 in poetry
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Contents
Events
• January to July – The Scriblerus Club meets. The group includes John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
- End – Venetian sea-captain Julije Balović begins compilation of the Perast Chronicle, a collection of epic poetry.
Works published
United Kingdom
- John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured [...] Mrs. Maria Mather", English, Colonial America[1]
- William Diaper, An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace[2]
- Laurence Eusden, A Letter to Mr. Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne[2]
- Abel Evans, Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton[2]
- John Gay:
- The Shepherd's Week (pastoral)[3]
- The Fan
- Samuel Jones, Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions[2]
- Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock: An heroi-comical poem, first edition in an enlarged, five-canto form (see also Miscellaneoous Poems and Translations 1712[2]
- Nicholas Rowe, Poems on Several Occasions[2]
- Richard Steele:
- Editor, Poetical Miscellanies, including pieces by Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell, John Gay, Thomas Warton, Edward Young and Richard Steele himself[2]
- Editor, "Written by a lady", The Ladies Library, anthology sometimes attributed to Mary Wray, to Steele and to George Berkeley[2]
- Jonathan Swift, The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd, published this year, although the book states "1713"[2]
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, The Works of John Earl of Rochester. Containing Poems, On Several Occasions: His Lordship's Letters To Mr. Savil and Mrs. * * with Valentinian, a Tragedy. Never before Publish'd together, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, posthumous[4]
Other
- Antoine Houdart de La Motte, an "improved" version of Homer's Iliad, with a preface critical of the poet; France[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
- November 13 – William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
- Date not known:
- Georg Luis (died 1792), German poet
- Elias Caspar Reichard (died 1791), German poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 25 (buried) – Walter Pope (born 1627), English astronomer and poet
- November 29 – Jerolim Kavanjin (born 1641), Croatian poet
- Nozawa Bonchō 野沢 凡兆 (born c. 1640), Japanese haikai poet
- Benjamin Tompson (born 1642), English Colonial American poet[6]
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
Notes
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- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto