1713 in poetry explained

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Events

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

Works published

• Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips^[1]
• Samuel Croxall, An original canto of Spencer: design'd as part of his Faerie Queene, but never printed (political satire)^[2]
• 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^[3]
  • 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^[4]
• Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
• Joseph Trapp, Peace
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous^[5]
• 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^[6]
• 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. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
2. Web site: An Original Canto of Spencer . English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition . 4 March 2019.
3. Book: Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. registration. 3rd. 1991. 1946. 326.
4. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004,, retrieved via Google Books
5. Web page titled "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 11, 2009. 2009-05-02.
6. 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,, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

• http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto