1716 in poetry

1716 in poetry

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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.

Works published

* John Gay - "Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of London" and "Court Poems"
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's "Court Eclogues"
* Alexander Pope, translator, Homer's "Iliad", Book II this year, preceded by Book I in 1715, and to be followed by Books III in 1717, IV in 1718, and V-VI in 1720.
* da Silva, editor, "Fénix Renascida", anthology of Portuguese poetryGrun, Bernard, "The Timetables of History", third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328]

Births

* December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
* December 26 - Thomas Gray (died 1771)
* December 26 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet 1803)
* Elizabeth Amherst (d. 1779)

Deaths

*January 1 - William Wycherley, dramatist (born c.1640)

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature

Notes

* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto


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