1715 in poetry

• Nicholas Rowe made British Poet Laureate in succession to Nahum Tate.
• Mary Monck, dying in Bath, England, writes affecting verses to her husband, not published until 1755.

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 12 – William Whitehead (died 1785), English poet and playwright
• March 7 – Ewald Christian von Kleist (died 1759), German poet
• May 4 – Richard Graves (died 1804), English poet and novelist
• July 4 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (died 1769), German poet
• October 1 – Richard Jago (died 1781), English clergyman and poet
• November 5 – John Brown (died 1766), English clergyman, author and poet
• Undated
  • Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (died 1795), Irish poet
  • Jakob Immanuel Pyra (died 1744), German poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 19 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (born 1661), English poet and statesman
• July 30 – Nahum Tate (born 1652), Irish-born Poet Laureate
• Undated – Mary Monck (born c. 1677), Anglo-Irish poet

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