1725 in poetry

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 Notes

[edit] Events

• Scot James Thomson moves to London, where he continues writing poetry and becomes a playwright, living first in East Barnet and later Richmond in 1736[1].

[edit] Works published

• Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's Odyssey, Books I-III (with William Broome and Elijah Fenton), Books IV-V to follow in 1726
• James Thompson, The Seasons, poem in blank verse^[1]
• William Thomson, compiler, Orpheus Caledonius: or a Collection of the Best Scotch Songs
• Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion (1725-28)

[edit] Births

• February 25 — Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (died 1798)
• John Newton

[edit] Deaths

• June 29 — Arai Hakuseki, Japanese poet, writer, and politician (born 1657)
• Alicia D'Anvers

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

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