1714 in poetry

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Events

March - The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley.
End - Venetian sea-captain Julije Balović begins compilation of the Perast Chronicle, a collection of epic poetry.

John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured Mrs. Maria Mather", English, Colonial America
William Diaper, An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace
Laurence Eusden, A Letter to Mr. Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne
Abel Evans, Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton
John Gay:
* The Shepherd's Week
* The Fan
Samuel Jones, Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock: An heroi-comical poem, first edition in an enlarged, five-canto form (see also Miscellaneoous Poems and Translations 1712
Nicholas Rowe, Poems on Several Occasions
Richard Steele:
* Editor, Poetical Miscellanies, including pieces by Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell, John Gay, Thomas Warton, Edward Young and Richard Steele himself
* Editor, "Written by a lady", The Ladies Library, anthology sometimes attributed to Mary Wray, to Steele and to George Berkeley
Jonathan Swift, The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd, published this year, although the book states "1713"
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, The Works of John Earl of Rochester. Containing Poems, On Several Occasions: His Lordship's Letters To Mr. Savil and Mrs. * * with Valentinian, a Tragedy. Never before Publish'd together, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, posthumous

Antoine Houdart de La Motte, an "improved" version of Homer's Iliad, with a preface critical of the poet; France

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