1709 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 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 forgotten", 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 Bernard Lintott, publisher, Collection of Poems 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" On May 2, Alexander Pope's career as a poet was launched with the publication of the anthology Poetical Miscellanies, The Sixth Part, edited by John Dryden. The publisher, Jacob Tonson, had solicited poems from Pope for the volume three years before; but publication was delayed and finally occurred three weeks before Pope's 21st birthday. Pope did not visit London at the time of publication, instead travelling there in June. Tonson was a hard bargainer, and paid Pope 13 guineas, for the young man's verses (about two pence per line).