1713 in poetry

Events

• First printing of Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th century Cretan Greek romantic epic poem Erotokritos, in Venice.

Works published

• Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips
• Samuel Croxall, An original canto of Spencer: design'd as part of his Faerie Queene, but never printed
• Abel Evans, Vertumnus
• Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea, "Written by a Lady", Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
• John Gay:
• * Rural Sports
• * The Fan
• Alexander Pope:
• * Ode For Musick
• * Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
• *Windsor-Forest
• Richard Steere, The Daniel Catcher, including "Earth Felicities", a poem in blank verse, an unusual form for the time, and "Caelestial Embassy", a nativity poem that criticized the Puritan rejection of Christmas, English Colonial America
• Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
• Joseph Trapp, Peace
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous
• Edward Young:
• * An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown
• * ''A Poem on the Last Day''

Births

• September 13 - Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti, Italian poet, orator and philosopher
• September 18 - Samuel Cobb, English poet and critic
• December 18 - Thomas Gilbert, English satirical poet and rake
• Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched, German
• Khwaja Muhammad Zaman, Indian, Sindhi-language poet
• 1713 or 1714 - George Smith of Chichester, English landscape painter and poet

Deaths

• February 14 - William Harrison, English poet and diplomat
• May 20 - Thomas Sprat, English bishop and poet
• September 6 - François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais, French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin