Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Anonymous, Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels, often attributed to Alexander Pope, but perhaps composed by Pope as well as John Gay and John Arbuthnot[1]
- Henry Baker, The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
- Elizabeth Boyd, writing under the pen name, "Louisa", Variety[1]
- Mather Byles, "A Poem on the Death of His Late Majesty King George, of Glorious Memory, and the Accession of Our Present Sovereign, King George II, to the British Throne",[2] the author's first published poem, he wrote formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope[3]
- John Dyer, Grongar Hill, Dyer's first published work originally appeared in Richard Savage's Miscellany in 1726, written in Pindaric style; this year Dyer rewrote the 150-line piece in a loose measure of four cadences and had it printed, after which it received much acclaim
- John Gay, Fables, I, to be followed by II in 1738, but completed only in 1750
- Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, two volumes published this year, an anthology including prose and verse by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and John Arbuthnot (Last Volume 1728 [although that edition states "1727"], The Third Volume [actually the fourth] 1732, Volume the Fifth 1735 with no content by Pope)[1]
- Christopher Pitt, Poems and Translations[1]
- James Ralph, The Tempest; or, The Terror of Death[1]
- Alexander Pope:
- James Thomson:
- A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (who died March 20 of this year)[1]
- Summer (see also Winter 1726, Spring 1728, The Seasons 1730)[1]
- John Wright, Spiritual Songs for Children[1]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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