Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Ebenezer Cook (attributed), "An Elegy on [. . .] Nicholas Lowe"[1]
- Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh[1]
- Jacob Taylor, "Pennsylvania", about the colony's reliance on God's favor for its abundance and fertility; the longest poem written by this renowned almanac author[1]
- Joseph Addison, The Christian Poet: A miscellany of divine poems[2]
- Thomas Cooke, translator, The Works of Hesiod[2]
- Henry Fielding, The Masquerade, published under the pen name "By Lemuel Gulliver, Poet Laureat to the King of Lilliput[2]
- David Mallet, The Excursion[2]
- Christopher Pitt, translator, An Essay on Virgil's Aenid, from the Latin of Virgil (see also The Aeneid of Virgil 1740, Works of Virgil 1753)[2]
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad: An heroic poem, Books I-III, (expanded in 1729; followed by Book IV [The New Dunciad] in 1742, and completed in 1743)[2]
- James Ralph:
- Allan Ramsay, Poems by Allan Ramsay[2]
- Richard Savage, The Bastard[2]
- George Sewell, Posthumous Works of Dr. George Sewell[2]
- Thomas Sheridan, translator, The Satyrs of Persius, presented in Latin and English translation[2]
- James Thomson, Spring (see also Winter 1726, Summer 1727, The Seasons 1730)[2]
- Edward Ward, Durgen; or, A Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist [. . .], published anonymously this year, although the book states "1729"[2]
- William Wycherley, The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, edited by Lewis Theobald (see also Posthumous Works 1729)[2]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 28 – Esther Johnson known as "Stella", inspiration of Jonathan Swift (born 1681). Swift, who rushed back from England last year when he was told she was deathly ill, could not keep himself at her bedside when she died. Nor does he attend her funeral. Many years later, a lock of hair, assumed to be hers, was found in his desk, wrapped in a paper bearing the words, "Only a woman's hair".
- Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (born 1663), Italian critic and poet
- Bernard de la Monnoye (born 1641), French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic
- Richardson Pack
- Aogán Ó Rathaille (born 1670), Irish poet, creator of the Aisling poem
- Heinrich Theobald Schenk (born 1656), American hymn writer and pastor
[edit] See also - ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b 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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