1704 in poetry

Works published

• Joseph Addison, The Campaign, published this year, although dated "1705"
• Edmund Arwaker, An Embassy from Heav'n; or, The Ghost of Queen Mary
• Daniel Defoe:
• * The Address
• * An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born English-man
• * A Hymn to Victory
• John Dennis, The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry,
• Bernard Mandeville, Typhon; or, The Wars Between the Gods and Giants
• Mary Pix, Violenta; or, The Rewards of Virtue, published anonymously; based on the eighth tale of the second day of Boccaccio's Decameron
• Matthew Prior, A letter to Monsieur Boileau Depreaux, published anonymously; about the Battle of Blenheim, and satirizing Boileau's Fourth Epistle to the King of France, 1672
• William Wycherley, Miscellany Poems

  Births

• January 1 – Soame Jenyns, English writer and poet
• February 13 – Robert Dodsley, English bookseller, poet, dramatist and anthologist
• April 30 – Jean Adam, Scottish poet
• August 11 – James Miller, English playwright, librettist, poet, satirist and clergyman
• December 17 – Moses Browne, English poet and clergyman
• Also:
• * John Adams, English Colonial American clergyman and poet
• * William Dawson, English Colonial American clergyman, college president and poet
• * William Hamilton, Scottish Jacobite poet

  Deaths

• March 29 – Naitō Jōsō, Japanese Genroku period haiku poet, a principal disciple of Bashō
• July 24 – István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet
• September 7 – Benedetto Menzini, Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet