1723 in poetry

Events

• July - A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.

Works published in English

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• Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia
• Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies
• Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare an elegy on Increase Mather

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• Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem
• Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper
• Matthew Prior:
• * Down-Hall
• * The Turtle and the Sparrow
• Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly
• Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.

Works published in other languages

• Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali
• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French

Births

• January 27 - Johann Andreas Cramer, German poet, writer and theologian
• September 30 - William Hutton, English local historian and poet
• November 3 - Samuel Davies, English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet
• November 30 - William Livingston, English Colonial American public official, poet and writer

Deaths

• February 13 - Sarah Fyge Egerton, English poet
• February 26 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes
• March 13 - René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French Protestant poet and historian
• March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet
• June 8 - Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
• September 23 - Jacques Basnage, French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher