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1723 in poetry 
Summary
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Events edit
- 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.[1]
Works published in English edit
English colonies in America edit
- 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 Philadelphia[2]
- Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies[3]
- Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather[2]
Great Britain edit
- Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem[4]
- Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem[4]
- Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper[4]
- Matthew Prior:
- Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly[4]
- Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.[4]
Works published in other languages edit
- Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali[5]
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French[6]
Births edit
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[2]
- November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer[2]
Deaths edit
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)[7]
- 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 edit
Notes edit
- ^ Mandeville, Bernard (1997). Hundert, E. J. (ed.). The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 0-87220-374-3.
- ^ a b c d 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 b c d e f g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto