1713 in poetry

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

Events

• First printing of Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th century Cretan Greek romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), in Venice.

Works published

• Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips
• Samuel Croxall, An original canto of Spencer: design'd as part of his Faerie Queene, but never printed (political satire)
• Abel Evans, Vertumnus
• Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea, "Written by a Lady", Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
• John Gay:
  • Rural Sports
  • The Fan (published this year, although the book states "1714")
• Alexander Pope:
  • Ode For Musick
  • Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
  • Windsor-Forest
• Richard Steere, The Daniel Catcher, including "Earth Felicities", a poem in blank verse, an unusual form for the time, and "Caelestial Embassy", a nativity poem that criticized the Puritan rejection of Christmas, English Colonial America
• Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
• Joseph Trapp, Peace
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous
• Edward Young:
  • An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown
  • A Poem on the Last Day

Births

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

• September 13 – Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti (died 1757), Italian poet, orator and philosopher
• September 18 – Samuel Cobb (born 1675), English poet and critic
• December 18 (bapt.) – Thomas Gilbert (died 1766), English satirical poet and rake
• Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched (died 1762), German
• Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (died 1774), Indian, Sindhi-language poet
• 1713 or 1714 – George Smith of Chichester (died 1776), English landscape painter and poet

Deaths

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

• February 14 – William Harrison (born 1685), English poet and diplomat
• May 20 – Thomas Sprat (born 1635), English bishop and poet
• September 6 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (born 1632), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin

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

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9. Hindi literature
10. 1717 in poetry
11. 1703 in poetry
12. Descriptive poetry
13. 1712 in poetry
14. Windsor-Forest
15. Kulliyyat
16. Topographical poetry
17. Joseph Addison
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19. 1757 in poetry
20. 1719 in poetry