1707 in poetry

• Elizabeth Bradford and William Bradford write prefatory poems for Benjamin Keach's War with the Devil, Colonial America • Samuel Cobb, Poems on Several Occasions • Benjamin Colman, "A Poem on Elijah's Translation, occasioned by the death of Rev. Samuel Willard", delivered as a sermon at Willard's funeral, the longest of Colman's poems; English Colonial America • Poems on Affairs of State, including the first publication together of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece • John Pomfret, ''Quae Rara, Chara: A poem on Panthea's confinement'' • Nahum Tate, The Triumph of Union ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March 26 – Mather Byles, (died 1788), English Colonial American clergyman and poet • December 18 – Charles Wesley (died 1788), English Methodist clergyman and hymn writer ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March 30 – Henry Hall (born 1656), English poet and composer of church music • September 15 – George Stepney (born 1663), English poet and diplomat • September 18 – Petter Dass (born c.1647/8), Norwegian poet • September 23 – John Tutchin (born c. 1661), English radical Whig controversialist, gadfly journalist and poet • September 24 – Vincenzo da Filicaja (born 1642), Italian poet • Also: • Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku" (born 1661), Japanese haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō • Wali Mohammed Wali, also known as Wali Deccani and Wali Aurangabadi (born 1667), Indian, Urdu-language poet ==See also==