1727 in poetry

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	This is part of the List of years in poetry
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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 Notes

[edit] Events

• Jonathan Swift revisits England this year and stays with his friend Alexander Pope until the visit is cut short when Swift gets word that Esther Johnson is dying. He rushes back. She survives until January 28, 1728.

[edit] Works published

• John Gay, Fables, I, to be followed by II in 1738, but completed only in 1750
• Alexander Pope, Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, a parody of Longinus's treatise on the sublime
• Thomson, "Summer"

[edit] Births

• Thomas Cole (?)

[edit] Deaths

• John Reynolds

[edit] See also

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

[edit] Notes

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