1713 in poetry

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

Events

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

Works published

Anne Finch's Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions

• Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips^[1]
• Abel Evans, Vertumnus^[1]
• Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea, "Written by a Lady", Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions^[1]
• John Gay:
  • Rural Sports^[1]
  • The Fan (published this year, although the book states "1714")^[1]
• Alexander Pope:
  • Ode For Musick^[1]
  • "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day^[2]
  • Windsor-Forest^[1]
• 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^[3]
• Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous^[4]
• Edward Young:
  • An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown^[1]
  • A Poem on the Last Day^[1]

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^[5]
• 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

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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. 
2. ↑ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 326. 
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
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. ↑ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

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