1700 in poetry

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Works published

 * Sir Richard Blackmore &mdash; A Satyr Against Wit, published anonymously; an attack on the "Wits", including John Dryden
 * Samuel Cobb &mdash; 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 &mdash; The Pacificator, published anonymously, verse satire in the literary war between the "Men of Sense" and the "Men of Wit"
 * John Dryden &mdash; Fables, Ancient and Modern, the poet's final anthology
 * William King &mdash; 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 &mdash; Reason
 * Nahum Tate &mdash; Panacea, a poem upon tea
 * John Tutchin &mdash; The Foreigners, published anonymously; provoked a reply from Daniel Defoe in The True-Born Englishman in 1701
 * Edward Ward &mdash; The Reformer, published anonymously
 * Samuel Wesley &mdash; An Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry
 * Thomas Yalden &mdash; The Temple of Fame
 * Anonymous &mdash; Jaħasra Mingħajr Ħtija, Gozo

Births
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 * February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched (died 1766), German poet
 * January 14 – Christian Friedrich Henrici (died 1764), German poet
 * May 26 – Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (died 1760), German poet
 * September 11 – James Thomson (died 1748), Scottish poet
 * September 30 – Stanisław Konarski, born Hieronim Konarski (died 1773), Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist friar and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment
 * October 13 – Phanuel Bacon (died 1783) English playwright, poet and author
 * Also – David French (died 1742), English Colonial American poet
 * Year uncertain – Richard Lewis (died 1734), English Colonial American poet

Deaths
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 * March 14 – Henry Killigrew (born 1613), English clergyman, poet and playwright
 * May 12 – John Dryden (born 1631), English poet, former Poet Laureate
 * July 19 – Thomas Creech (born 1659), English translator of classical poetry, found dead this day from suicide
 * November 16 – Jamie Macpherson (born 1675), Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament, hanged
 * Also:
 * Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán (born 1643), Guatemalan historian and poet
 * Bahinabai (born 1628), Maharashtran Varkari female poet-saint
 * Edward Howard died about this year (born 1624), English playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard