1708 in poetry

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Works published

Edmund Arwaker, Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade
Sir Richard Blackmore, The Kit-Cats
Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"), "The Sot-Weed Factor: The Laws, Government, Courts, and Constitution of the Country; and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolics, Entertainments, and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America' ', a satirical poem by an English Colonial American in Maryland
Elijah Fenton, Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems
John Gay, Wine, published anonymously
Charles Gildon, Libertas Triumphans, on the battle of Oudenarde, July 11
Aaron Hill, The Celebrated Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, pubslished anonymously, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses
William King, The Art of Cookery
Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, published this year, although the book states "1709"
Benjamin Tompson, The Gramarrian's Funeral, English Colonial America
Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn (died 1754), German
October 16 – Albrecht von Haller (died 1777), German
December 18 – John Collier (died 1786) English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym "Tim Bobbin" or "Timothy Bobbin"
Also:
Georg Heinrich Behr (died 1761), German
Samuel Boyse (died 1749), English
Philip Francis, year uncertain (died 1773), English translator, poet and playwright
Laetitia Pilkington, year uncertain (died 1750), Irish
John Seccomb, (died c. 1783), English Colonial American clergyman and poet
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (died 1759), English diplomat and satiric poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (born 1630), Puerto Rico's first native born poet
Petter Dass (born 1648), a Norwegian poet
Pan Lei (born 1646), Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and poet
Jane Turell (died 1735), daughter of Benjamin Colman, English Colonial America
William Walsh (born 1663), English poet and critic