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Works published
United Kingdom
- Joseph Addison, The Works of Joseph Addison, edited by Thomas Tickell[1]
- John Dennis, Original Letters, Familiar, Moral and Critical. In Two Volumes, including literary criticism[2]
- Charles Gildon, Laws of Poetry, criticism[3]
- Alexander Pennecuik, An Ancient Prophecy Concerning Stock-Jobbing, and the Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea-Company[1]
- Thomas Parnell, Night-Piece on Death a notable work by one of the Graveyard poets
- Matthew Prior, Colin's Mistakes, published anonymously[1] (died this year)
- Allan Ramsay, Poems[4]
- Jonathan Swift:
- The Bubble[1]
- Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1722" (see also Joseph Addison, above)
Other
- Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Earthly Pleasure in God, Germany[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 9 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (died 1781), German poet
- September 17 – Johann Adolf Schlegel (died 1793), German
- November 9 – Mark Akenside (died 1770), British poet
- December 25 – William Collins (died 1759), English poet
- James Grainger
- Tobias Smollett (died 1771), Scottish poet and author
- William Wilkie (died 1772), Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- September 18 – Matthew Prior (born 1664), English poet[6] (see "Works", above)
- February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (born 1648), English statesman and poet
- date not known – Rupa Bhavani (born 1621), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Paul, Harry Gilbert, John Dennis: His Life and Criticism, p 64, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
- ↑ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 178, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
- ↑ "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)", article, The Burns Encyclopedia, online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009. Archived 2009-07-21.
- ↑ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
- ↑ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
- "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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