1723 in poetry
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
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 27 – Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian
- September 30 – William Hutton (died 1815), English local historian and poet
- November 3 – Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet
- November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer
Deaths
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Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 13 – Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1668), English poet
- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes
- March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (born 1650), French Protestant poet and historian
- March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695){{cite book|last=Grun|first=Bernard|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|year=1991|orig-year=1946|page=328}}
- June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
- September 23 – Jacques Basnage (born 1653), French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher
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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