1715 in poetry

1715 in poetry
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	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1712 1713 1714 1715 1716 1717 1718
Years in literature:	1712 1713 1714 1715 1716 1717 1718
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Contents

1 Events
2 Works published
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 See also
6 Notes

Events

Nicholas Rowe made British Poet Laureate

Works published

Alexander Pope, translator of Homer's Iliad, Book I, followed by Books II in 1716, III in 1717, IV in 1718, and V-VI in 1720.
Matthew Prior, Solomon, or The Vanity of the World, a didactic poem^[1]
Isaac Watts, Divine Songs for the Use of Children, including "How doth the little busy Bee"

Births

March 7 — Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (died 1759)
July 4 — Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (died 1769)
John Brown
Richard Jago
Richard Graves
William Whitehead

Deaths

July 30 — Nahum Tate, Irish poet (born 1652)
Mary Monck

See also

Poetry portal

Notes

^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

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

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