1713 in poetry
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Events
- First printing of Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th century Cretan Greek romantic epic poem Erotokritos (á¼ÏÏÏÏκÏιÏοÏ), in Venice.
Works published

- Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips[1]
- Samuel Croxall, An original canto of Spencer: design'd as part of his Faerie Queene, but never printed (political satire)[2]
- Abel Evans, Vertumnus[1]
- Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea, "Written by a Lady", Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions[1]
- John Gay:
- Alexander Pope:
- 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[4]
- Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated[1]
- Joseph Trapp, Peace
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous[5]
- Edward Young:
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- September 13 â Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti (died 1757), Italian poet, orator and philosopher
- September 18 â Samuel Cobb (born 1675), English poet and critic
- December 18 (bapt.) â Thomas Gilbert (died 1766), English satirical poet and rake
- Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched (died 1762), German
- Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (died 1774), Indian, Sindhi-language poet[6]
- 1713 or 1714 â George Smith of Chichester (died 1776), English landscape painter and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 14 â William Harrison (born 1685), English poet and diplomat
- May 20 â Thomas Sprat (born 1635), English bishop and poet
- September 6 â François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (born 1632), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin