1716 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1706 . 1707 . 1708 . 1709 . 1710 . 1711 . 1712 ...; 1713 1714 1715 -1716- 1717 1718 1719; ... 1720 . 1721 . 1722 . 1723 . 1724 . 1725 . 1726 ... In literature: 1713 1714 1715 -1716- 1717 1718 1719
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

Voltaire is exiled to Tulle.
Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand.
Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.

Jane Brereton, The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
Francis Chute, writing under the pen name "Mr. [Joseph] Gay", The Petticoat: An heroi-comical poem, often wrongly attributed to John Durant Breval^[1]
John Gay, Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of London and Court Poems
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Court Eclogues
Alexander Pope, translator, Homer's Iliad, Volume II this year (containing Books 5–8), preceded by Book I in 1715, and to be followed by Volume III (Books 9–12) in 1717, IV (Books 13–16) in 1718, and V (Books 17–21) VI (Books 22–24) in 1720^[1]
Nicholas Rowe and others, Verses upon the Sickness and Recovery of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq., in State Poems, By the most Eminent Hands, including Susanna Centlivre's, "Ode to Hygeia", ^[2]
Isaac Watts, Divine Songs^[1]

Monument marking birthplace of Thomas Gray

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

- year uncertain – Elizabeth Amherst (died 1779), English poet and amateur naturalist
- Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (died 1783), Japanese Edo period poet and painter; along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period and one of the greatest haiku poets of all time

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

- Samuel Cobb, death year uncertain, one source states 1713^[1] (born 1675), English poet
- William Mercer (born 1675), Scottish poet and army officer

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Ward, Sir Adolphus William et al., editors, 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; and catalog page, National Art Library Web site, retrieved January 10, 2010
↑ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

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