1709 in Poetry - Works Published

Works Published

  • Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets (1708)
  • Samuel Cobb, The Female Reign
  • John Dryden, editor, Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part (usually known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies), sixth in a series of anthologies published by Jacob Tonson from 1684 to this year The 752-page volume, printed on thin paper without book covers (which buyers could arrange to get), the dimensions of which were "roughly that of a middling-sized modern paperback". Publication had been repeatedly delayed. According to Maynard Mack, the book, like most modern anthologies, "featured mainly the work of writers born to be forgotton", although it included two poems by Jonathan Swift and three by Alexander Pope. (see "Alexander Pope's career launched in Poetical Miscellanies" subsection, below)
  • William King, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
  • Experience Mayhew, Massachusee Psalter, English, Colonial America
  • John Philips, Cider
  • John Reynolds, Death's Vision Represented in a Philosophical Sacred Poem
  • Jonathan Swift:
    • Baucis and Philemon
    • Description of the Morning
    • A Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard
    • A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners, published anonymously "by a person of quality"

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