1708 in poetry
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-- From Richard Blackmore's The Kit-Kats. A Poem, Chapter 6, published this year and referring to the Kit-Kat Club in which the influential publisher Jacob Tonson was a prominent member. Tonson was influential in getting recognition for many poets in his series of anthologies.
Events
- July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Works published
- Edmund Arwaker, Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade
- Sir Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats
- Ebenezer Cooke, The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts, and Constitution of the Country; and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolics, Entertainments, and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America, a satirical poem by an English Colonial American in Maryland published in England
- Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
- John Gay, Wine, published anonymously
- Charles Gildon, Libertas Triumphans, on the battle of Oudenarde, July 11
- Aaron Hill, The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, published anonymously, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses
- William King, The Art of Cookery
- John Philips, Cyder
- Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1709"
- Benjamin Tompson, The Gramarrian's Funeral, English Colonial America
- Isaac Watts, ''Hymns and Spiritual Songs''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet
- July 19 – Philip Francis,, Anglo-Irish translator, poet and playwright
- August 29 – Olof von Dalin, Swedish poet
- October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physiologist and poet
- December 8 – Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Welsh-born English diplomat and satirical poet
- December 18 – John Collier English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym "Tim Bobbin"
- Also:
- * Georg Heinrich Behr, German poet
- * John Seccomb, Colonial American clergyman and poet
- * Elizabeth Scott, Colonial American poet
- * Thomas Seward, English poet
- * Jane Turell, Colonial American poet, daughter of Benjamin Colman
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 15 - William Walsh, English poet and critic
- October 21 - Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian Baroque writer
- December 27 - Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie, Swedish poet
- Also:
- * Francisco Ayerra de Santa María, first native-born Puerto Rican poet
- * Pan Lei, Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet