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Encyclopedia > 1708 in literature

See also: 1707 in literature, other events of 1708, 1709 in literature, list of years in literature.



Contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events



New Books

  • La Foire de Beaucaire - Anne de La Roche-Guilhem

Births



Deaths

  • unknown date - Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine



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American Literature: Poetry - MSN Encarta (1445 words)
American poetry remains a hybrid, a literature that tries to separate itself from the tradition of English literature even as it adds to and alters that tradition.
A powerful new kind of poetry flowered in the mid- and late 19th century among the first poets to be born and raised as actual citizens of the United States.
Cook’s The Sot-Weed Factor (1708) is a long narrative poem written in rhyming couplets that mocks Americans as a backward people but aims its satire most effectively at the poem’s narrator, who is a British snob.
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