1714 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• January to July — The Scriblerus Club meets. The group includes John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift.

Works published

United Kingdom

• John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured [...] Mrs. Maria Mather", English, Colonial America^[1]
• William Diaper, An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace^[2]
• Laurence Eusden, A Letter to Mr. Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne^[2]
• Abel Evans, Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton^[2]
• John Gay:
  • The Shepherd's Week (pastoral)^[3]
  • The Fan
• Samuel Jones, Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions^[2]
• 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^[2]
• Nicholas Rowe, Poems on Several Occasions^[2]
• Richard Steele:
  • Editor, Poetical Miscellanies, including pieces by Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell, John Gay, Thomas Wharton, Edward Young and Richard Steele himself^[2]
  • Editor, "Written by a lady", The Ladies Library, anthology sometimes attributed to Mary Wray, to Steele and to George Berkeley^[2]
• Jonathan Swift, The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd, published this year, although the book states "1713"^[2]
• 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, posthumous^[4]

Other

• Antoine Houdart de La Motte, an "improved" version of Homer's Iliad, with a preface critical of the poet; France^[5]

Births

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

• January 1 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
• November 13 – William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
• Date not known:
  • Georg Luis (died 1792), German
  • Elias Caspar Reichard (died 1791), German

Deaths

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

• Paul Whitehead (poet)
• Nozawa Bonchō 野沢 凡兆 (born c. 1640), Japanese haikai poet
• Jerolim Kavanjin (born 1641), Croatian poet
• Walter Pope (born 1627), English astronomer and poet
• Benjamin Tompson (born 1642), English Colonial American^[6]

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 326
4. ^ Web page titled "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 11, 2009. Archived 2009-05-02.
5. ^ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 437, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
6. ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

• [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto