1715 in poetry

• Nicholas Rowe made British Poet Laureate in succession to Nahum Tate.
• Mary Monck, dying in Bath, England, writes affecting verses to her husband, not published until 1755.

• Susanna Centlivre, A Poem. Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland. Upon His Ascension to the ThroneWard, Sir Adolphus William et al., editors, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rd07AAAAIAAJ The Cambridge history of English literature, Volume 10], p 482, New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons (this edition; also Cambridge, England: University Press) 1913, retrieved via Google Books on January 10, 2010
• Charles Cotton, The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton, posthumously published{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• Samuel Croxall, The Vision
• Daniel Defoe, published anonymously, attributed to Defoe, A Hymn to the Mob
• Alexander Pope:
• The Temple of Fame
• Translator, The Iliad of Homer, Volume I (Books 1–4), followed by Volume II (Biooks 5–8) in 1716, Volume III (Books 9–12) in 1717, Volume IV (Books 13–16) in 1718, Volume V (Books 14–21) and Volume VI (Books 22–24), both in 1720
• Matthew Prior, Solomon, or The Vanity of the World, a didactic poem{{cite book|last=Grun|first=Bernard|title=The Timetables of History|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist00grun_0|url-access=registration|edition=3rd|year=1991|page=[https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist00grun_0/page/328 328]}}
• Thomas Tickell, translation, The First Book of Homer's Iliad
• Isaac Watts, Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children, including "How doth the little busy Bee"; 10 editions published by 1753

• Antoine Houdart de La Motte, Réflexions sur la critique, attacking those who admire the ancients uncritically; criticism in France{{cite book|last=France|first=Peter|title=The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French|page=[https://archive.org/details/newoxfordcompani00fran/page/437 437]|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1995|isbn=0-19-866125-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/newoxfordcompani00fran/page/437}}

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

• February 12 – William Whitehead (died 1785), English poet and playwright
• March 7 – Ewald Christian von Kleist (died 1759), German poet
• May 4 – Richard Graves (died 1804), English poet and novelist
• July 4 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (died 1769), German poet
• October 1 – Richard Jago (died 1781), English clergyman and poet
• November 5 – John Brown (died 1766), English clergyman, author and poet
• Undated
• Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (died 1795), Irish poet
• Jakob Immanuel Pyra (died 1744), German poet

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

• May 19 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (born 1661), English poet and statesman
• July 30 – Nahum Tate (born 1652), Irish-born Poet Laureate
• Undated – Mary Monck (born c. 1677), Anglo-Irish poet

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