1700 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Sir Richard Blackmore — A Satyr Against Wit, published anonymously; an attack on the "Wits", including John Dryden
• Samuel Cobb — Poetae Britannici his most famous poem, a survey of previous English poetry in a light style, clear diction, and imagery that later critics like John Nichols considered "sublime"

• Daniel Defoe — The Pacificator, published anonymously, verse satire in the literary war between the "Men of Sense" and the "Men of Wit"
• John Dryden — Fables, Ancient and Modern, the poet's final anthology
• William King — The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies, published anonymously, a satire on Sir Hans Sloane, editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
• John Pomfret — Reason
• Nahum Tate — Panacea, a poem upon tea
• John Tutchin — The Foreigners, published anonymously; provoked a reply from Daniel Defoe in The True-Born Englishman in 1701
• Edward Ward — The Reformer, published anonymously
• Samuel Wesley — An Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry
• Thomas Yalden — The Temple of Fame
• Anonymous — Jaħasra Mingħajr Ħtija, Gozo

  Births

• February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German poet
• January 14 - Christian Friedrich Henrici, German poet
• May 26 - Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, German poet
• September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet
• September 30 - Stanisław Konarski, born Hieronim Konarski, Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment
• October 13 - Phanuel Bacon English playwright, poet and author
• Also - David French, English Colonial American poet
• Year uncertain - Richard Lewis, English Colonial American poet

  Deaths

• March 14 - Henry Killigrew, English clergyman, poet and playwright
• May 12 - John Dryden, English poet, former Poet Laureate
• July 19 - Thomas Creech, English translator of classical poetry, found dead this day from suicide
• November 16 - Jamie Macpherson, Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament, hanged
• Also:
• * Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán, Guatemalan historian and poet
• * Bahinabai, Maharashtran Varkari female poet-saint
• * Edward Howard died about this year, English playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard