1723 in poetry

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

Events

Works published in English

English colonies in America

• Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of [. . .] Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia^[1]
• Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies^[2]
• Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather^[1]

Great Britain

• Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health^[3]
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem^[3]
• Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper^[3]
• Matthew Prior:
  • Down-Hall^[3]
  • The Turtle and the Sparrow^[3]
• Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly^[3]
• Edward Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates^[3]

Works published in other languages

• Jean Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French^[4]

Births

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

• January 27 – Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian
• November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer^[1]
• date not known – Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American clergyman, president of Princeton University, author and poet^[1]

Deaths

Memorial to Thomas D'Urfey at St. James's Church, Piccadilly

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

• Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
• Thomas D'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, and poetry, in addition to writing jokes
• Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1670), English
• Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)^[5]

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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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
2. ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
4. ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
5. ↑ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

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