1713 in poetry

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Events

 * First printing of Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th century Cretan Greek romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), in Venice.

Works published

 * Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips
 * Samuel Croxall, An original canto of Spencer: design'd as part of his Faerie Queene, but never printed (political satire)
 * Abel Evans, Vertumnus
 * Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea, "Written by a Lady", Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
 * John Gay:
 * Rural Sports
 * The Fan (published this year, although the book states "1714")
 * Alexander Pope:
 * Ode For Musick
 * Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
 * Windsor-Forest
 * Richard Steere, The Daniel Catcher, including "Earth Felicities", a poem in blank verse, an unusual form for the time, and "Caelestial Embassy", a nativity poem that criticized the Puritan rejection of Christmas, English Colonial America
 * Jonathan Swift, published anonymously, Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
 * Joseph Trapp, Peace
 * John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. "By the R. H. the E. of R.", London, posthumous
 * Edward Young:
 * An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdown
 * A Poem on the Last Day

Births
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 * September 13 – Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti (died 1757), Italian poet, orator and philosopher
 * September 18 – Samuel Cobb (born 1675), English poet and critic
 * December 18 (bapt.) – Thomas Gilbert (died 1766), English satirical poet and rake
 * Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched (died 1762), German
 * Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (died 1774), Indian, Sindhi-language poet
 * 1713 or 1714 – George Smith of Chichester (died 1776), English landscape painter and poet

Deaths
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 * February 14 – William Harrison (born 1685), English poet and diplomat
 * May 20 – Thomas Sprat (born 1635), English bishop and poet
 * September 6 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (born 1632), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin