1723 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * July – A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.

English colonies in America

 * Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of [. . .] Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in Philadelphia
 * Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British Worthies
 * Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather

Great Britain

 * Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem
 * Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem
 * Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper
 * Matthew Prior:
 * Down-Hall
 * The Turtle and the Sparrow
 * Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly
 * Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.

Works published in other languages

 * Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali
 * Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; French

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 27 – Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian
 * September 30 – William Hutton (died 1815), English local historian and poet
 * November 3 – Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet
 * November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 13 – Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1668), English poet
 * February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes
 * March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (born 1650), French Protestant poet and historian
 * March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
 * June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
 * September 23 – Jacques Basnage (born 1653), French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher