1716 in poetry
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
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French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Events
- VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
is exiled to Tulle. - Poet John ByromJohn ByromJohn Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS was an English poet and inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand. He is also remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn Christians Awake, salute the happy morn.- Early life :John Byrom was descended from an old...
returns to England to teach his own system of shorthandShorthandShorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed or brevity of writing as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos and graphē or graphie...
. - Edmund CurllEdmund CurllEdmund Curll was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander Pope, with unscrupulous publication and publicity. Curll rose from poverty to wealth through his publishing, and he did this by approaching book printing in a mercenary...
renews his controversy with Matthew PriorMatthew PriorMatthew Prior was an English poet and diplomat.Prior was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr. Busby. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel...
, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.
Works published
- Jane BreretonJane BreretonJane Brereton was an English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine.-Biography:Jane was the daughter of Mr. Thomas Hughes, of Bryn Gruffydd near Mold, Flintshire by Anne Jones, his wife, and was born in 1685. Unusually for the time, Jane was educated, at least up to the age...
, The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of HoraceHoraceQuintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...
Imitated - Francis Chute, writing under the pen namePen nameA pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
"Mr. [Joseph] Gay", The Petticoat: An heroi-comical poem, often wrongly attributed to John Durant BrevalJohn Durant BrevalJohn Durant Breval , was a miscellaneous writer.Breval was descended from a French refugee protestant family, and was the son of Francis Durant de Breval, prebendary of Westminster, where he was probably born about 1680... - John GayJohn GayJohn Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
, Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of LondonTrivia (poem)Trivia is a poem by John Gay. The full title of the poem is Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London, and it takes its name from the "goddess of crossroads", Trivia....
and Court Poems - Lady Mary Wortley MontaguLady Mary Wortley MontaguThe Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat and writer. Montagu is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to the British ambassador, which have been described by Billie Melman as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about...
, Court Eclogues - Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
, translator, Homer's IliadIliadThe Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...
, Volume II this year (containing Books 5–8), preceded by Book I in 17151715 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Susanna Centlivre, A Poem. Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland...
, and to be followed by Volume III (Books 9–12) in 17171717 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January - Three Hours After Marriage, a play written by Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Arbuthnot, was staged this year...
, IV (Books 13–16) in 17181718 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Joseph Addison:** Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1719"...
, and V (Books 17–21) VI (Books 22–24) in 17201720 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Jane Brereton, An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr... - da Silva, editor, Fénix Renascida, anthology of PortuguesePortuguese literatureThis is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of...
poetry - Nicholas Rowe and others, Verses upon the Sickness and Recovery of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq., in State Poems, By the most Eminent Hands, including Susanna CentlivreSusanna CentlivreSusanna Centlivre born Susanna Freeman, also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress and one of the premier dramatists of the 18th century. During her long career at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the Second Woman of the English Stage after Aphra Behn...
's, "Ode to Hygeia", - Isaac WattsIsaac WattsIsaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymnwriter, he was recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns...
, Divine Songs
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- February 23 – Konrad Arnold Schmid (died 17891789 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Ireland:* Charlotte Brooke, Reliques of Irish Poetry, anthology published in the United Kingdom...
), German - December 25 – Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 17741774 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jacques Delille elected to membership in the Académie Française in large part due to his verse translation of the Georgics in 1769-Colonial America:* Hugh Henry Brackenridge, "A Poem on Divine...
) - December 26 – Thomas GrayThomas GrayThomas Gray was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.-Early life and education:...
(died 17711771 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-English Colonial America:...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet - December 26 – Jean François de Saint-LambertJean François de Saint-LambertJean François de Saint-Lambert was a French poet and military officer, but he is most remembered for his involvement in two love affairs....
, FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
poet (died 18031803 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* First appearance of the Literary Magazine and American Register, a United States monthly published in Philadelphia and edited by Charles Brockden Brown until 1807, when it became a semiannual...
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- year uncertain – Elizabeth AmherstElizabeth Frances Amherst (poet)Elizabeth Frances Amherst , poet and amateur naturalist, remained largely unpublished during her lifetime.She was born to Elizabeth Kerrill and Jeffrey Amherst of Kent, one of two girls and seven boys. She married the Revd John Thomas of Welford, Gloucestershire; the couple had no biological...
(died 17791779 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Cowper and John Newton, Olney Hymns, 66 by Cowper , another 282 by Newton; the work was popular, with many editions published* Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects, Part 2 of...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and amateur naturalist - Yosa BusonYosa Busonwas a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. Buson was born in the village of Kema in Settsu Province...
与謝蕪村 (died 17831783 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray * William Blake, Poetical Sketches...
), Japanese Edo periodEdo periodThe , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
poet and painter; along with Matsuo BashōMatsuo Basho, born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku...
and Kobayashi IssaKobayashi Issa, was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known as simply , a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea...
, considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period and one of the greatest haikuHaiku' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"...
poets of all time
- year uncertain – Elizabeth Amherst
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- January 1 – William WycherleyWilliam WycherleyWilliam Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.-Biography:...
(born c.16401640 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Francis Beaumont, Poems, including a translation from the Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which might not be by Beaumont; several other poems in the book are definitely not by him, according...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
playwright and poet - February 19 – Dorothe EngelbretsdotterDorothe EngelbretsdotterDorothe Engelbretsdotter was a Norwegian author. She principally wrote hymns and poems. She has been characterized as Norway's first recognized female author as well as Norway's first feminist before feminism became a recognized concept.-Background:Engelbretsdotter was born in Bergen, Norway She...
(born 16341634 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published * Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, published anonymously* William Habington, Castara, anonymously...
), Norwegian poet - Also:
- Samuel CobbSamuel Cobb (poet)Samuel Cobb was an English poet, critic and school master who was known for a light hearted, ironic pose in his verse and a witty, good natured personal life. He was born in London and orphaned early in his life. He attended Christ's Hospital under the Lord Mayor's charity and continued with...
, death year uncertain, one source states 17131713 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips* Abel Evans, Vertumnus* Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea,...
(born 16751675 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Charles Cotton:** Burlesque upon Burlesque; or, The Scoffer Scoft, published anonymously...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet - William MercerWilliam Mercer (poet)William Mercer , was a Scottish poet and army officer.-Biography:At fifteen he ran away from school to become a soldier and fought in the 30 Years War. By the...
(born 16751675 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Charles Cotton:** Burlesque upon Burlesque; or, The Scoffer Scoft, published anonymously...
), Scottish poet and army officer
- Samuel Cobb
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry18th century in poetry-Decades and years:...
- 18th century in literature18th century in literatureSee also: 18th century in poetry, 17th century in literature, other events of the 18th century, 19th century in literature, list of years in literature.Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the 18th century....
- Augustan poetryAugustan poetryIn Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. In English literature, Augustan poetry is a branch of Augustan literature, and refers to the poetry of the...
- Scriblerus ClubScriblerus ClubThe Scriblerus Club was an informal group of friends that included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell. The group was founded in 1712 and lasted until the death of the founders, starting in 1732 and ending in 1745, with Pope and Swift being...