1715 in poetry

Events

• Nicholas Rowe made British Poet Laureate in succession to Nahum Tate.
• Mary Monck, dying in Bath, England, writes affecting verses to her husband, not published until 1755.

  Works published

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• Susanna Centlivre, A Poem. Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland. Upon His Ascension to the Throne
• Charles Cotton, The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton, posthumously published
• Samuel Croxall, The Vision
• Daniel Defoe, published anonymously, attributed to Defoe, A Hymn to the Mob
• Alexander Pope:
• The Temple of Fame
• Translator, The Iliad of Homer, Volume I, followed by Volume II in 1716, Volume III in 1717, Volume IV in 1718, Volume V and Volume VI, both in 1720
• Matthew Prior, Solomon, or The Vanity of the World, a didactic poem
• Thomas Tickell, translation, The First Book of Homer's Iliad
• Isaac Watts, Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children, including "How doth the little busy Bee"; 10 editions published by 1753

  Other

• Antoine Houdart de La Motte, Réflexions sur la critique, attacking those who admire the ancients uncritically; criticism in France

  Births

• February 12 - William Whitehead, English poet and playwright
• March 7 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet
• May 4 - Richard Graves, English poet and novelist
• July 4 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet
• October 1 - Richard Jago, English clergyman and poet
• November 5 - John Brown, English clergyman, author and poet
• Undated
• * Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, Irish poet
• * Jakob Immanuel Pyra, German poet

  Deaths

• May 19 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman
• July 30 - Nahum Tate, Irish-born Poet Laureate
• Undated - Mary Monck, Anglo-Irish poet