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Friday, April 24, 2015

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

Events



  • During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.

Works published


United Kingdom

  • Mark Akenside, A British Philippic, published anonymously
  • John Banks, Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose
  • Mather Byles, On the Death of the Queen, English, Colonial America
  • Elizabeth Carter, Poems Upon Particular Occasions, published anonymously
  • Robert Dodsley, The Art of Preaching, published anonymously
  • John Gay, Fables: Volume the Second (see also Fables 1727)
  • Samuel Johnson, London, A Poem, on the Third Satire of Juvenal
  • Alexander Pope:
    • The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
    • The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
    • One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight
    • One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II
    • The Universal Prayer
    • (see also Pope and Swift, below)
  • Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (later Duchess of Somerset), writing as "The Right Hon. the Countess of ****", The Story of Inkle and Yarrico, includes "An Epistle From Yarrico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery", an imitation of Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard", a part of his Works 1717)
  • Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Pope's contribution was anonymous; Part 1, by Swift, had previously appeared in Miscellanies, "The Last Volume" (that is, Volume 3) 1727
  • Jonathan Swift (see also Pope and Swift above), "The Beasts' Confession"
    • and Alexander Pope, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace
  • James Thomson, The Works of Mr. Thomson
  • John Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (first published in Charlestown 1737, see also A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1741)

Other

  • Johann Jakob Bodmer, Critical Disquisition on the Wonderful in Poetry, a defense of John Milton; German-language, Switzerland

Births



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

  • December 4 â€" Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (died 1809) German poet, playwright and storyteller
  • Mary Darwall
  • Johann Christoph Krauseneck (died 1799), German
  • Erika Leibman (died 1803), Swedish poet and academic
  • Moritz August von Thümmel (died 1817), German
  • John Wolcot (died 1819), English satirist and poet

Deaths



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

  • Onitsura (born 1661), Japanese haiku poet

See also



  • Poetry
  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature
  • 18th century in poetry
  • 18th century in literature
  • Augustan poetry
  • Scriblerus Club

Notes



  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602â€"1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
  • [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto


 
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