Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Now crowds to Founder Bocaj [Jacob Tonson] did resort
And for his Favour humbly made their Court.
The little Wits attended at his Gate
And Men of Title did his Levee wait;
For he, as Sovereign by Prerogative,
Old Members did exclude, and new receive.
He judg'd who most were for the Order fit,
And Chapters held to make new Knights of Wit.
-- 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.
July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Edmund Arwaker, Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade
Sir Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats
Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"), "The Sot-Weed Factor: 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
Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
John Gay, Wine, published anonymously
Charles Gildon, Libertas Triumphans, on the battle of Oudenarde, July 11
Aaron Hill, The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, published anonymously, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses
William King, The Art of Cookery
Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1709"
Benjamin Tompson, The Gramarrian's Funeral, English Colonial America
Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
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
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
John Seccomb (died c. 1783), English Colonial American clergyman and poet
Thomas Seward (died 1790), English poet
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
Jane Turell (died 1735), daughter of Benjamin Colman, English Colonial American
