1715 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• February 12 – William Whitehead (died 1785), English poet and playwright
• March 7 – Ewald Christian von Kleist (died 1759), German poet
• May 4 – Richard Graves (died 1804), English poet and novelist
• July 4 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (died 1769), German poet
• November 5 – John Brown (died 1766), English clergyman, author and poet

• Also:
  • Richard Jago (died 1781), English clergyman and poet
  • Jakob Immanuel Pyra (died 1744), German poet