1723 in poetry

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Events

  • July – A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Mandeville|editor=Hundert, E. J.|title=The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVvBn5_yvdgC&pg=PR10|year=1997|publisher=Hackett Publishing|location=Indianapolis|isbn=0-87220-374-3|page=10}}

Works published in English

=[[American poetry|English colonies in America]]=

  • Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of [. . .] Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in PhiladelphiaBurt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C 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
  • Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British WorthiesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  • Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather

=[[English poetry|Great Britain]]=

  • Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem{{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}}
  • Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem
  • Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper
  • Matthew Prior:
  • Down-Hall
  • The Turtle and the Sparrow
  • Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly
  • Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.

Works published in other languages

  • Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali{{cite Banglapedia|article=Heyat Mamud|author=Wakil Ahmed}}
  • Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; FrenchPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

Births

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Deaths

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See also

Notes

  • [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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Category:18th-century poetry

Poetry