1723 in poetry explained

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

Events

• July  - A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.^[1]

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^[2]
• Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies^[3]
• Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather^[2]

Great Britain

• Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem^[4]
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem^[4]
• Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper^[4]
• Matthew Prior:
  • Down-Hall^[4]
  • The Turtle and the Sparrow^[4]
• Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly^[4]
• Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.^[4]

Works published in other languages

• Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali^[5]
• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French^[6]

Births

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

• January 27  - Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian
• September 30  - William Hutton (died 1815), English local historian and poet
• November 3  - Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet^[2]
• November 30  - William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer^[2]

Deaths

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

• February 13  - Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1668), English poet
• February 26  - Thomas d'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes
• March 13  - René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (born 1650), French Protestant poet and historian
• March 15  - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)^[7]
• June 8  - Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
• September 23  - Jacques Basnage (born 1653), French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher

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: Mandeville, Bernard. Hundert, E. J.. The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. 1997. Hackett Publishing. Indianapolis. 0-87220-374-3. 10.
2. 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
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602 - 1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
5. Heyat Mamud. Wakil Ahmed.
6. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
7. Book: Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd. 1991. 1946. 328.

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