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1706 in poetry
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1706 poetry literature
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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 JobCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
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 viewsMark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 194, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
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 AmericaBurt, Daniel S., 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, retrieved via Google Books
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)http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758) The Burns Encyclopedia 2009-07-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20100714164232/http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml 2010-07-14 live
Isaac Watts - Horae LyricaeIsabel Rivers Watts, Isaac (1674–1748) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28888 2011-12-09 10.1093/ref:odnb/28888
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
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
Notes
"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
Category:18th-century poetry
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