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

[edit] Events

• Voltaire is exiled to Tulle.
• Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand.
• Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.

[edit] Works published

• Jane Brereton, The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
• Francis Chute, writing under the pen name "Mr. [Joseph] Gay", The Petticoat: An heroi-comical poem, often wrongly attributed to John Durant Breval^[1]
• John Gay, Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of London and Court Poems
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Court Eclogues
• Alexander Pope, translator, Homer's Iliad, Volume II this year (containing Books 5–8), preceded by Book I in 1715, and to be followed by Volume III (Books 9–12) in 1717, IV (Books 13–16) in 1718, and V (Books 17–21) VI (Books 22–24) in 1720^[1]
• da Silva, editor, Fénix Renascida, anthology of Portuguese poetry^[2]
• Isaac Watts, Divine Songs^[1]

[edit] Births

Monument marking birthplace of Thomas Gray

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

• February 23 – Konrad Arnold Schmid (died 1789), German
• December 25 – Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died 1774)
• December 26 – Thomas Gray (died 1771), English poet
• December 26 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (died 1803)

• Also:
  • year uncertain – Elizabeth Amherst (died 1779), English poet and amateur naturalist
  • Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (died 1783), Japanese Edo period poet and painter; along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period and one of the greatest haiku poets of all time

[edit] Deaths

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

• January 1 – William Wycherley (born c.1640), English playwright and poet
• February 19 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (born 1634), Norwegian poet
• Also:
  • Samuel Cobb, death year uncertain, one source states 1713^[1] (born 1675), English poet
  • William Mercer (born 1675), Scottish poet and army officer

[edit] 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

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

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