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

[edit] Events

[edit] Works published

[edit] United Kingdom

Matthew Prior, about 1718

• Joseph Addison:
  • The Old Whig. Numb. I, published anonymously on March 19^[1]
  • The Old Whig. Numb. II, published anonymously on April 2^[1]
• John Durant Breval:
  • Mac-Dermot; or, The Irish Fortune-Hunter^[1]
  • Ovid in Masquerade, published under the pen name "Mr. Joseph Gay" (although the pseudonym was also used by Francis Chute)^[1]
• Thomas D'Urfey, Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive, in five volumes, the first two consisting of verse written by D'Urfey, a revised edition of Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, which had been published since 1598; after the book sold out this year, it went into a second edition under the original title (a sixth volume was added in 1720); although the pieces were meant to be sung, only the words were provided
• Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, the book states "1718", but it was not ready for subscribers until March of this year (see also Poems on Several Occasions 1709)^[1]
• Allan Ramsay:
  • Content^[1]
  • Scots Songs (see also Scots Songs 1718)^[2]
• Nicholas Rowe, Lucan's Pharsalia, Translated into English Verse, with a life of Rowe by James Welwood, published this year, although the book states "1718"^[1]
• George Sewell, Poems on Several Occasions^[1]
• Isaac Watts, Psalms of David
• Edward Young, A Letter to Mr. Tickell, on the death of Joseph Addison^[1]

[edit] Other

• Ludvig Holberg, Pedar Paars, comic Danish heroic poem^[3]

[edit] Births

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

• January 28 – Johann Elias Schlegel (died 1749), German critic and poet
• January 30 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer (died 1783), German poet
• April 2 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (died 1803), German poet
• September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (died 1800), German poet
• James Cawthorn
• James Eyre Weeks (?)

[edit] Deaths

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

• June 17 – Joseph Addison (born 1672), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
• Samuel Garth (born 1661), English physician and poet
• Joseph de Jouvancy (born 1643), French poet, pedagogue, philologist, and historian

[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 f g h i} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)", article, The Burns Encyclopedia, online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009. Archived 2009-07-21.
3. ^ 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

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