1713 in poetry

Events

• First printing of Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th century Cretan Greek romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), in Venice.

Works published

• Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips
• Samuel Croxall, An original canto of Spencer: design'd as part of his Faerie Queene, but never printed (political satire)
• Abel Evans, Vertumnus
• Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea, "Written by a Lady", Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
• John Gay:
  • Rural Sports
  • The Fan (published this year, although the book states "1714")
• Alexander Pope:
  • Ode For Musick
  • Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
  • Windsor-Forest
• Richard Steere, The Daniel Catcher, including "Earth Felicities", a poem in blank verse, an unusual form for the time, and "Caelestial Embassy", a nativity poem that criticized the Puritan rejection of Christmas, English Colonial America
• Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
• Joseph Trapp, Peace
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous
• Edward Young:
  • An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown
  • A Poem on the Last Day

Births

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

• September 13 – Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti (died 1757), Italian poet, orator and philosopher
• September 18 – Samuel Cobb (born 1675), English poet and critic
• December 18 (bapt.) – Thomas Gilbert (died 1766), English satirical poet and rake
• Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched (died 1762), German
• Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (died 1774), Indian, Sindhi-language poet
• 1713 or 1714 – George Smith of Chichester (died 1776), English landscape painter and poet

Deaths

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

• February 14 – William Harrison (born 1685), English poet and diplomat
• May 20 – Thomas Sprat (born 1635), English bishop and poet
• September 6 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (born 1632), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin

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. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. "An Original Canto of Spencer".
3. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History".
4. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
5. link. (August 8, 2010 2009-05-02.)
6. 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008