Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Sameul Butler, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose, posthumous[1]
- Edward Capell, editor, Prolusions; or, Select Pieces of Antient Poetry, published anonymously this year, although the book states 1760[1]
- John Gilbert Cooper, translator, Ver-Vert; or, The Nunnery Parrot, published anonymously, translated from the French of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's mock epic Ver-Vert 1733[1]
- Mary Latter, The Miscellaneous Works[1]
- William Mason, Caractacus[1]
- Augustus Montague Toplady, Poems on Sacred Subjects, published aononymously[1] (the author's 18th birthday was this year)
- Francis Williams, "Ode to Governor Haldane", the first known published poem by a Jamaican black[2]
- Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition (criticism)
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 25 – Robert Burns, also known as "Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard of Ayrshire" and, in Scotland, simply "The Bard" (died 1796), Scottish poet and a lyricist, called the national poet of Scotland
- November 10 – Friedrich Schiller (died 1805), German poet and dramatist
- date not known – Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, (died 1846), American[3]
[edit] Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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