Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

Colonial America

• Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"):
  • "An Elegy on [. . .] William Lock"[1]
  • "In Memory of [. . .] Benedict Leonard Calvert[1]
• Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry[1]
• Richard Lewis:
  • "A Description of Spring"[2]
  • "Carmen Saeculare"[2]
  • attributed, "A Rhapsody"[2]

United Kingdom

• Anonymous, Castle-Howard, has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin[3]
• Anonymous, Collection of Pieces[4]
• Anonymous, The Gentleman's Study in Answer to the Lady's Dressing-Room, "By Miss W----" (a reply to Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room, also published this year)[3]
• Robert Dodsley, A Muse on Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany[3]
• John Gay,Acis and Galatea: An English pastoral opera,[3] Gay wrote the libretto for Handel's music
• George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose[3]
• William King, The Toast: An epic poem, although the book claimed to be a translation from the Latin of "Frederick Scheffer", it was an original work by King[3]
• George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, published anonymously[3]
• John Milton, Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley[3]
• Richard Savage:
  • An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole[3]
  • Editor, A Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose [...] Publish'd on Occasion of the Dunciad, including pieces by Edward Young, W. Harte and James Miller, together with four previously published pamphlets[3]
• Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated, published anonymously[3]
• Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope and others, Miscellanies: The Third Volume, in fact, it was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735)[3]
• Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal[3]
• Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published[3]

Other

• Albrecht Haller, Attempt at Swiss Poems, German language, Switzerland[5]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• William Falconer (died 1769), Scottish

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden (born 1681), a German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
• December 4 – John Gay (born 1685), English poet and playwright

• Also:
  • Jane Barker (born 1652), poet and playwright
  • Ebenezer Cooke (also spelled "Cook"; (born c. 1665), English Colonial American poet[1]
  • Mary Davys (born 1674), poet and playwright

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
2. ^ ^{a b c} Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
4. ^ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 38, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 9780833740465, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
5. ^ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009

• [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto