1708 in poetry explained

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-- From Richard Blackmore's The Kit-Kats. A Poem, Chapter 6, published this year and referring to the Kit-Kat Club in which the influential publisher Jacob Tonson was a prominent member. Tonson was influential in getting recognition for many poets in his series of anthologies.^[1]

Events

• July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.^[2]

Works published

• Edmund Arwaker, Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade^[3]
• Sir Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats^[3]
• Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"), The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts, and Constitution of the Country; and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolics, Entertainments, and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America, a satirical poem by an English Colonial American in Maryland published in England^[4]
• Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems^[3]
• John Gay, Wine, published anonymously^[3]
• Charles Gildon, Libertas Triumphans, on the battle of Oudenarde, July 11^[3]
• Aaron Hill, The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, published anonymously, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses^[3]
• William King, The Art of Cookery^[3]
• John Philips, Cyder
• Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1709"^[3]
• Benjamin Tompson, The Gramarrian's Funeral, English Colonial America^[5]
• Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Births

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

• April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn (died 1754), German poet
• July 19 – Philip Francis, (died 1773), Anglo-Irish translator, poet and playwright^[3]
• August 29 – Olof von Dalin (died 1763), Swedish poet
• October 16 – Albrecht von Haller (died 1777), Swiss physiologist and poet
• December 8 – Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (died 1759), Welsh-born English diplomat and satirical poet
• December 18 – John Collier (died 1786) English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym "Tim(othy) Bobbin"
• Also:
  • Georg Heinrich Behr (died 1761), German poet
  • John Seccomb (died c. 1783), Colonial American clergyman and poet^[4]
  • Elizabeth Scott (died 1776), Colonial American poet
  • Thomas Seward (died 1790), English poet
  • Jane Turell (died 1735), Colonial American poet, daughter of Benjamin Colman^[4]

Deaths

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

• March 15  - William Walsh (born 1662), English poet and critic
• October 21  - Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (born 1659), Hungarian Baroque writer
• December 27  - Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (born 1661), Swedish poet
• Also:
  • Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (born 1630), first native-born Puerto Rican poet
  • Pan Lei (born 1646), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

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

Notes and References

1. [Maynard Mack|Mack, Maynard]
2. [:s:Trapp, Joseph (DNB00)]
3. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6.
4. Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. . Retrieved via Google Books.
5. Book: Ludwig. Richard M.. Nault. Clifford A.. Annals of American Literature, 1602–1983. 1986. New York. Oxford University Press.