1711 in poetry

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Works published

 * Sir Richard Blackmore, published anonymously, The Nature of Man
 * John Dryden, translator, Metamorphoses, translated from the Latin original of Ovid
 * William King, An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes
 * Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
 * Jonathan Swift, editor, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, anthology, including 25 works by Swift
 * Edward Ward, The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (originally published in six monthly parts, 1710–1711)
 * James Watson (Scottish editor), editor, Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems, Edinburgh (published from 1706 to 1711)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 15 – Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (died 1740), German
 * March 22 – Samuel Gotthold Lange (died 1781), German
 * April 10 – John Gambold (died 1771), Welsh-born religious poet and bishop of the Moravian Church.
 * May – Henry Taylor (died 1785), Church of England clergyman, religious writer and poet
 * May 18 – Ruđer Bošković (died 1787), Ragusan polymath and poet
 * October 17 – Jupiter Hammon (died sometime before 1806), English Colonial African American

Deaths
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 * March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (born 1636), French poet and critic
 * September 4 – John Caryll (born 1625), exiled English poet, dramatist, and diplomat
 * Cille Gad (born 1675), Norwegian female poet and scholar, of plague