1738 in poetry

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

Samuel Johnson's London proved popular enough for a second edition in the same year as the first

Events

• During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.

Works published

United Kingdom

• Mark Akenside, A British Philippic, published anonymously^[1]
• John Banks, Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose^[1]
• Mather Byles, On the Death of the Queen, English, Colonial America^[2]
• Elizabeth Carter, Poems Upon Particular Occasions, published anonymously^[1]
• Robert Dodsley, The Art of Preaching, published anonymously^[1]
• John Gay, Fables: Volume the Second (see also Fables 1727)^[1]
• Samuel Johnson, London, A Poem, on the Third Satire of Juvenal^[1]
• Alexander Pope:
  • The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
  • The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
  • One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight^[1]
  • One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II^[1]
  • The Universal Prayer^[1]
  • (see also Pope and Swift, below)
• Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (later Duchess of Somerset), writing as "The Right Hon. the Countess of ****", The Story of Inkle and Yarrico, includes "An Epistle From Yarrico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery", an imitation of Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard", a part of his Works 1717)^[1]
• Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Pope's contribution was anonymous; Part 1, by Swift, had previously appeared in Miscellanies, "The Last Volume" (that is, Volume 3) 1727^[1]
• Jonathan Swift (see also Pope and Swift above), "The Beasts' Confession"^[1]
  • and Alexander Pope, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace^[1]
• James Thomson, The Works of Mr. Thomson^[1]
• John Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (first published in Charlestown 1737, see also A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1741)^[1]

Other

• Johann Jakob Bodmer, Critical Disquisition on the Wonderful in Poetry, a defense of John Milton; German-language, Switzerland^[3]

Births

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

• December 4 – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (died 1809) German poet, playwright and storyteller
• Mary Darwall
• Johann Christoph Krauseneck (died 1799), German
• Erika Leibman (died 1803), Swedish poet and academic
• Moritz August von Thümmel (died 1817), German
• John Wolcot (died 1819), English satirist and poet

Deaths

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

• Onitsura (born 1661), Japanese haiku 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. ↑ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009

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