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1712 in poetry

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Contents

Events

  • Scriblerus Club begins meeting (stops meeting in 1745)
  • Works published

  • Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation: a philosophical poem
  • John Dennis, Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakspear: with Some Letters of Criticism to the Spectator, a pamphlet of literary criticism, London
  • William Diaper:
  • Dryaides; or, The Nymphs Prophecy (published this year, although the book states "1713")
  • Nereides; or, Sea-Eclogues
  • Thomas Ellwood, Davideis: The Life of King David of Israel
  • George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, Poems Upon Several Occasions
  • Bernard Mandeville, published anonymously, Typhon; or, The Wars Between the Gods and Giants
  • Peter Anthony Motteux, A Poem Upon Tea
  • John Philips, Poems
  • Alexander Pope, editor, Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (also known as Lintot's Miscellany), including a two-canto version of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" (poem enlarged in 1714)
  • Matthew Prior, published anonymously, Erle Robert's Mice: A tale, in imitation of Chaucer
  • Nicholas Rowe, translated from Claude Quillet, Callipaedia
  • Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther's Skin first printed (originally written in the 12th century)
  • George Sewell, The Patriot
  • Thomas Tickell, A Poem, to his Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal, on the Prospect of Peace
  • John Wright, The Best Mirth; or, The Melody of Sion, hymns
  • Births

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

  • October 8 – Alison Cockburn, née Rutherford (died 1794), Scottish poet
  • December 3 – Joseph Relph (died 1743), English poet from Cumberland
  • Richard Glover (died 1785), English poet
  • Bharatchandra Ray (died 1760), Bengali and Sanskrit poet and song composer
  • Christian Reuter (died 1765), German poet
  • Approximate date – Emanuel Collins, English clergyman and miscellaneous writer
  • Deaths

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

  • February 5 (bur.) – John Norris of Bemerton (born 1657), English theologian, philosopher and poet
  • June 12 – Carlo Alessandro Guidi (born 1650), Italian poet
  • July 1 – William King (born 1663), English poet
  • References

    1712 in poetry Wikipedia