1708 in poetry
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Now crowds to Founder Bocaj [Jacob Tonson] did resort
And for his Favour humbly made their Court.
The little Wits attended at his Gate
And Men of Title did his Levee wait;
For he, as Sovereign by Prerogative,
Old Members did exclude, and new receive.
He judg'd who most were for the Order fit,
And Chapters held to make new Knights of Wit.
-- From
Kit-Kat Club in which the influential publisher Jacob Tonson was a prominent member. Tonson was influential in getting recognition for many poets in his series of anthologies.[1]
Events
- July 14 – Oxford Professor of Poetry.[2]
Works published
- Edmund Arwaker, Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade[3]
- Sir Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats[3]
- Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"), The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts, and Constitution of the Country; and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolics, Entertainments, and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America, a satirical poem by an English Colonial American in Maryland published in England[4]
- Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems[3]
- John Gay, Wine, published anonymously[3]
- Oudenarde, July 11[3]
- Aaron Hill, The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, published anonymously, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses[3]
- William King, The Art of Cookery[3]
- John Philips, Cyder
- Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1709"[3]
- Benjamin Tompson, The Gramarrian's Funeral, English Colonial America[5]
- Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 23 – Germanpoet
- July 19 – Philip Francis, (died 1773), Anglo-Irish translator, poet and playwright[3]
- August 29 – Swedishpoet
- October 16 – Swissphysiologist and poet
- December 8 – Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (died 1759), Welsh-born English diplomat and satirical poet
- December 18 – John Collier (died 1786) English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym "Tim(othy) Bobbin"
- Also:
- Germanpoet
- John Seccomb (died c. 1783), Colonial American clergyman and poet[4]
- Elizabeth Scott (died 1776), Colonial American poet
- Thomas Seward (died 1790), English poet
- Jane Turell (died 1735), Colonial American poet, daughter of Benjamin Colman[4]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 15 – William Walsh (born 1662), English poet and critic
- October 21 – HungarianBaroque writer
- December 27 – Swedishpoet
- Also:
- Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (born 1630), first native-born Puerto Rican poet
- Pan Lei (born 1646), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
See also
Notes
- ISBN 0-393-02208-0
- ^ s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00)
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7. Retrieved via Google Books.
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M.: Nault, Clifford A., Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature, 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press.
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- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto