1723 in poetry

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English colonies in America

Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of [. . .] Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia

Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies

Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather

Great Britain

Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem

Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem

Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper

Matthew Prior:

Down-Hall

The Turtle and the Sparrow

Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly

Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.

Works published in other languages

Jean Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French

Births

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

January 27 – Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian

November 3 – Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet

November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer

Deaths

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February 13 – Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1670), English poet

February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes

March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (born 1650), French Protestant poet and historian

March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)

June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher

September 23 – Jacques Basnage (born 1653), French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher

References

1723 in poetry Wikipedia

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