- 1715 in poetry
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c=18th century
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yp2=1713
yp3=1714
year=1715
ya1=1716
ya2=1717
ya3=1718
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da=0
dn1=1720s
dn2=1730s
dn3=1740s|Events
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Nicholas Rowe made BritishPoet Laureate Works published
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Alexander Pope , translator of Homer's "Iliad ", Book I, followed by Books II in 1716, III in 1717, IV in 1718, and V-VI in 1720.
*Matthew Prior , "Solomon, or The Vanity of the World", a didactic poemGrun, Bernard, "The Timetables of History", third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328]
*Isaac Watts , "Divine Songs for the Use of Children", including "How doth the little busy Bee"Births
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March 7 —Ewald Christian von Kleist , German poet (died 1759)
*July 4 —Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , German poet (died 1769)
* John Brown
*Richard Jago
*Richard Graves
*William Whitehead Deaths
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July 30 —Nahum Tate , Irish poet (born 1652)
*Mary Monck ee also
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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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