1706 in poetry

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
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Advice to the Poets, published anonymously
• 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
• William Congreve:
  • A Pindarique Ode ... On the Victorious Progress of Her Magesties Arms, Under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough
  • Discourse on the Pindarique Ode, in which the author criticized Abraham Cowley's views
• Daniel Defoe:
  • Caledonia
  • Jure Divino, about the divine-right theory of monarchy
• John Dennis, The Battle of Ramilla; or, the Power of Union
• William Harison, Woodstock Park, London : printed for Jacob Tonson
• Nicholas Noyes, "On Cotton Mather's Endeavors Toward the Christian Education of Negro Slaves", English Colonial America
• John Philips:
  • Blenheim
  • Cerealia: An imitation of Milton, published anonymously, also attributed to Elijah Fenton
• Thomas Tickell, Oxford, published anonymously, published this year, although the book states "1707"
• 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)
• Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae

Births

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

• Joseph Green (died 1780, English Colonial American clergyman and poet

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

Notes

• http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

References

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. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)". The Burns Encyclopedia.
5. Rivers, Isabel. (2004). "Watts, Isaac (1674–1748)". Oxford University Press.