1708 in poetry

Events

• July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.

Works published

• Edmund Arwaker, Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade
• Sir Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats
• Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"), The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts, and Constitution of the Country; and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolics, Entertainments, and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America, a satirical poem by an English Colonial American in Maryland published in England
• Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
• John Gay, Wine, published anonymously
• Charles Gildon, Libertas Triumphans, on the battle of Oudenarde, July 11
• Aaron Hill, The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, published anonymously, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses
• William King, The Art of Cookery
• John Philips, Cyder
• Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1709"
• Benjamin Tompson, The Gramarrian's Funeral, English Colonial America
• Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Births

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

• April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn (died 1754), German poet
• July 19 – Philip Francis, (died 1773), Anglo-Irish translator, poet and playwright
• August 29 – Olof von Dalin (died 1763), Swedish poet
• October 16 – Albrecht von Haller (died 1777), Swiss physiologist and poet
• December 8 – Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (died 1759), Welsh-born English diplomat and satirical poet
• December 18 – John Collier (died 1786) English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym "Tim(othy) Bobbin"
• Also:
  • Georg Heinrich Behr (died 1761), German poet
  • John Seccomb (died c. 1783), Colonial American clergyman and poet
  • Elizabeth Scott (died 1776), Colonial American poet
  • Thomas Seward (died 1790), English poet
  • Jane Turell (died 1735), Colonial American poet, daughter of Benjamin Colman

Deaths

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

• March 15 – William Walsh (born 1662), English poet and critic
• October 21 – Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (born 1659), Hungarian Baroque writer
• December 27 – Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (born 1661), Swedish poet
• Also:
  • Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (born 1630), first native-born Puerto Rican poet
  • Pan Lei (born 1646), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet

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. [[Maynard Mack. Mack, Maynard]], ''Alexander Pope: A Life'', Chapter 6, p 123, 1985 (but copyright 1986), first New York edition (also published simultaneously in London): W. W. Norton & Company "in association with Yale University Press / New Haven - London" {{ISBN. 0-393-02208-0
2. [[:s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00)]]
3. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
4. 978-0-618-16821-7. Retrieved via Google Books.
5. (1986). "Annals of American Literature, 1602–1983". Oxford University Press.