1706 in poetry

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Events

 * May 23 – The Battle of Ramillies, a victory for the British and their allies under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inspires several poets.

Works published

 * Joseph Addison, The Campaign, on the victory at Blenheim
 * Daniel Baker, The History of Job
 * Sir Richard Blackmore, Advice to the Poets, published anonymously
 * Stephen Clay, An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King: After the Battel of Ramilles, published anonymously; has been misattributed to Matthew Prior
 * William Congreve:
 * A Pindarique Ode ... On the Victorious Progress of Her Magesties Arms, Under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough
 * Discourse on the Pindarique Ode, in which the author criticized Abraham Cowley's views
 * Daniel Defoe:
 * Caledonia
 * Jure Divino, about the divine-right theory of monarchy
 * John Dennis, The Battle of Ramilla; or, the Power of Union
 * William Harison, Woodstock Park, London : printed for Jacob Tonson
 * Nicholas Noyes, "On Cotton Mather's Endeavors Toward the Christian Education of Negro Slaves", English Colonial America
 * John Philips:
 * Blenheim
 * Cerealia: An imitation of Milton, published anonymously, also attributed to Elijah Fenton
 * Thomas Tickell, Oxford, published anonymously, published this year, although the book states "1707"
 * James Watson, editor, A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems both ancient and modern, by several hands, Edinburgh (published this year through 1711)
 * Isaac Watts - Horae Lyricae

Births
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 * Joseph Green (died 1780, English Colonial American clergyman and poet

Deaths
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 * January 29 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (born 1638), English poet and courtier
 * June – Jacques Testu de Belval (born c. 1626), French ecclesiastic and poet
 * November 15 (presumed) – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (died 1683), deposed Buddhist religious leader and Tibetan poet
 * December 3 – Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (born 1637), German countess and hymn writer
 * Also:
 * Luo Mu (born 1622), Chinese painter, poet and prose writer
 * John Phillips (born 1631), poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips, nephew of John Milton
 * Rahman Baba (born 1632), Indian Pashto poet
 * Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler (born 1657), German