1704 in poetry

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—From William Shippen's, Faction Display'd, the work of a Tory poet on the powerful Whig publisher Jacob Tonson whose series of anthologies, known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies used the work of poets paid at low rates to create profitable income for Tonson and, sometimes, recognition and fame for the poets. Shippen incorporated three lines written about Tonson by John Dryden, one of the most prominent of Tonson's low-paid poets.

Works published

Joseph Addison, The Campaign, published this year, although dated "1705"
Edmund Arwaker, An Embassy from Heav'n; or, The Ghost of Queen Mary
Daniel Defoe:
* The Address
* An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born English-man
* A Hymn to Victory
John Dennis, The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry,
Bernard Mandeville, Typhon; or, The Wars Between the Gods and Giants
Mary Pix, Violenta; or, The Rewards of Virtue, published anonymously; based on the eighth tale of the second day of Boccaccio's Decameron
Matthew Prior, A letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux, published anonymously; about the Battle of Blenheim, and satirizing Boileau's Fourth Epistle to the King of France, 1672
William Wycherley, ''Miscellany Poems''

Births

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January 1 – Soame Jenyns, English writer and poet
February 13 – Robert Dodsley, English bookseller, poet, dramatist and anthologist
April 30 – Jean Adam, Scottish poet
August 11 – James Miller, English playwright, librettist, poet, satirist and clergyman
December 17 – Moses Browne, English poet and clergyman
Also:
* John Adams, English Colonial American clergyman and poet
* William Dawson, English Colonial American clergyman, college president and poet
* William Hamilton, Scottish Jacobite poet

Deaths

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March 29 – Naitō Jōsō, Japanese Genroku period haiku poet, a principal disciple of Bashō
July 24 – István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet
September 7 – Benedetto Menzini, Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet