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1714 poetry literature
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Events
March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley.Valerie Rumbold Scriblerus Club (act. 1714) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2009 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/71160 2011-02-04
End – Venetian sea-captain Julije Balović begins compilation of the Perast Chronicle, a collection of epic poetry.
Works published
United Kingdom
thumb|150px|Alexander Pope, painted by Charles Jervas sometime from 1713 to 1715
John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured [...] Mrs. Maria Mather", English, Colonial AmericaLudwig, Richard M. Nault, Clifford A. Jr Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 1986 New York Oxford University Press
William Diaper, An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of HoraceCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Laurence Eusden, A Letter to Mr. Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne
Abel Evans, Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton
John Gay:
The Shepherd's Week (pastoral)Grun Bernard The Timetables of History https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist00grun_0 registration 3rd 1991 326
The Fan
Samuel Jones, Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions
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
Nicholas Rowe, Poems on Several Occasions
Richard Steele:
Editor, Poetical Miscellanies, including pieces by Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell, John Gay, Thomas Warton, Edward Young and Richard Steele himself
Editor, "Written by a lady", The Ladies Library, anthology sometimes attributed to Mary Wray, to Steele and to George Berkeley
Jonathan Swift, The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd, published this year, although the book states "1713"
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, posthumoushttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81497 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) Poetry Foundation 2009-04-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20100808165513/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81497 2010-08-08 dead
Other
Antoine Houdart de La Motte, an "improved" version of Homer's Iliad, with a preface critical of the poet; FranceFrance Peter The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French 437 New York Oxford University Press 1995 0-19-866125-8 https://archive.org/details/newoxfordcompani00fran/page/437
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis (died 1780), Lithuanian poet
November 13 – William Shenstone (died 1763, English poet)
Date not known:
Rob Donn (died 1778), Scottish Gaelic poet
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 poetBurt Daniel S. https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the Colonial era to modern times Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004 978-0-618-16821-7
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
18th century in poetry
18th century in literature
Augustan poetry
Scriblerus Club
Notes
"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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