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 â€" The Scriblerus Club meets. The group includes John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.

• End â€" Venetian sea-captain Julije Balović begins compilation of the Perast Chronicle, a collection of epic poetry.

Works published

United Kingdom

• John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured [...] Mrs. Maria Mather", English, Colonial America
• William Diaper, An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace
• 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)
  • 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, posthumous

Other

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

Births

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

• January 1 â€" Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
• November 13 â€" William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
• Date not known:
  • 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) â€" Walter Pope (born 1627), English astronomer and poet
• November 29 â€" 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 poet

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.; Nault, Clifford A., Jr (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602â€"1983. New York: Oxford University Press. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. 
3. ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 326. 
4. ^ "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-05-02. Retrieved 2009-04-11. 
5. ^ France, Peter (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 437. ISBN 0-19-866125-8. 
6. ^ Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the Colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7. 

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