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.
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-- From Richard Blackmore's The Kit-Kats. A Poem, Chapter 6, published this year and referring to the 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 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first 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: 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[4]
- Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems[3]
- John Gay, Wine, published anonymously[3]
- Charles Gildon, Libertas Triumphans, on the battle of 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 – Friedrich von Hagedorn (died 1754), German poet
- July 19 – Philip Francis, (died 1773), Anglo-Irish translator, poet and playwright[3]
- August 29 – Olof von Dalin (died 1763), Swedish poet
- October 16 – Albrecht von Haller (died 1777), Swiss physiologist 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:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 15 – William Walsh (born 1662), English poet and critic
- October 21 – Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (born 1659), Hungarian Baroque writer
- December 27 – Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (born 1661), Swedish poet
- Also:
- Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (born 1630), first native-born Puerto Rican poet
- Pan Lei (born 1646), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
Notes
- Mack, Maynard, Alexander Pope: A Life, Chapter 6, p 123, 1985 (but copyright 1986), first New York edition (also published simultaneously in London): W. W. Norton & Company "in association with Yale University Press / New Haven - London" ISBN 0-393-02208-0
- s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00)
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
