1700 in poetry

Works published

• Sir Richard Blackmore — A Satyr Against Wit, published anonymously; an attack on the "Wits", including John Dryden
• Samuel Cobb — Poetae Britannici his most famous poem, a survey of previous English poetry in a light style, clear diction, and imagery that later critics like John Nichols considered "sublime"

• Daniel Defoe — The Pacificator, published anonymously, verse satire in the literary war between the "Men of Sense" and the "Men of Wit"
• John Dryden — Fables, Ancient and Modern, the poet's final anthology
• William King — The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies, published anonymously, a satire on Sir Hans Sloane, editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
• John Pomfret — Reason
• Nahum Tate — Panacea, a poem upon tea
• John Tutchin — The Foreigners, published anonymously; provoked a reply from Daniel Defoe in The True-Born Englishman in 1701
• Edward Ward — The Reformer, published anonymously
• Samuel Wesley — An Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry
• Thomas Yalden — The Temple of Fame
• Anonymous — Jaħasra Mingħajr Ħtija, Gozo

Births

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

• February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched (died 1766), German poet
• January 14 – Christian Friedrich Henrici (died 1764), German poet
• May 26 – Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (died 1760), German poet
• September 11 – James Thomson (died 1748), Scottish poet
• September 30 – Stanisław Konarski, born Hieronim Konarski (died 1773), Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist friar and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment
• October 13 – Phanuel Bacon (died 1783) English playwright, poet and author
• Also – David French (died 1742), English Colonial American poet
• Year uncertain – Richard Lewis (died 1734), English Colonial American poet

Deaths

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

• March 14 – Henry Killigrew (born 1613), English clergyman, poet and playwright
• May 12 – John Dryden (born 1631), English poet, former Poet Laureate
• July 19 – Thomas Creech (born 1659), English translator of classical poetry, found dead this day from suicide
• November 16 – Jamie Macpherson (born 1675), Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament, hanged
• Also:
  • Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán (born 1643), Guatemalan historian and poet
  • Bahinabai (born 1628), Maharashtran Varkari female poet-saint
  • Edward Howard died about this year (born 1624), English playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. Burt, Daniel S.. (2004). "The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.