1709 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

• Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets (1708)^[1]
• Samuel Cobb, The Female Reign^[1]
• John Dryden, editor, Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part (usually known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies), sixth in a series of anthologies published by Tonson from 1684 to this year^[1]
• William King, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse^[1]
• Experience Mayhew, Massachusee Psalter, English, Colonial America^[2]
• John Philips, Cider
• Alexander Pope, Pastorals
• John Reynolds, Death's Vision Represented in a Philosophical Sacred Poem^[1]
• Jonathan Swift:
  • Baucis and Philemon^[1]
  • Description of the Morning
  • A Famous Prediction ofMerlin, the British Wizard^[1]
  • A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners, published anonymously "by a person of quality"^[1]

Births

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

• August 7 – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (died 1784)
• September 18 (N.S.) – Samuel Johnson (died 1784), English poet, author, critic

• Also:
  • John Armstrong (died 1779), Scottish poet^[1]
  • John Banks also spelled "Bancks" (died 1751), English poet and author^[1]
  • George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (died 1773), English statesman and poet^[1]
  • Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, year uncertain (died 1788), Irish statesman and poet^[1]
  • Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (died 1777), German

Deaths

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

• February 15 – John Philips (born 1676), English
• September 4 – Jean-François Regnard (born 1655), French

See also

Poetry portal

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

Notes

• [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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