Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France
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* March – The
Scriblerus Club
The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. They were prominent figures in the Augustan Age of English letters. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan ...
, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. In 1713, he became the Dean (Christianity), dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swi ...
,
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early ...
,
John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peach ...
,
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot FRS (''baptised'' 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership ...
(at whose
London
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house they meet),
Thomas Parnell Thomas Parnell may refer to:
* Thomas Parnell (scientist)
* Thomas Parnell (poet)
See also
* J. Parnell Thomas, American stockbroker and politician
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,
Henry St. John and
Robert Harley.
* End – Venetian sea-captain
Julije Balović
Julije Balović or Giulio Ballovich (; 24 March 1672 – 10 September 1727) was an entrepreneur, polyglot, judge, sea captain Venetian military officer, and collector of epic poetry from Venetian held Perast (modern-day Montenegro). Some sourc ...
begins compilation of the ''Perast Chronicle'', a collection of epic poetry.
Works published
United Kingdom
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John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured
..Mrs. Maria Mather",
English
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William Diaper
William Diaper (1685–1717) was an English clergyman, poet and translator of the Augustan literature, Augustan era. Having taken the wrong political side at a time of George I of Great Britain#Accession in Great Britain, regime change, he lost ...
, ''An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace''
*
Laurence Eusden, ''A Letter to Mr. Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne''
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* Abel Evans, ''Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton''][
* ]John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peach ...
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** ''The Shepherd's Week'' (pastoral)
** ''The Fan''
* Samuel Jones, ''Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasions''[
* ]Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early ...
, ''The Rape of the Lock: An heroi-comical poem'', first edition in an enlarged, five-canto form (see also ''Miscellaneoous Poems and Translations'' 1712
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* Nicholas Rowe, ''Poems on Several Occasions''][
* ]Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele ( – 1 September 1729) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine ''The Spectator (1711), The Spectator'' alongside his close friend Joseph Addison.
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Steel ...
:
** Editor, ''Poetical Miscellanies'', including pieces by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early ...
, Thomas Parnell Thomas Parnell may refer to:
* Thomas Parnell (scientist)
* Thomas Parnell (poet)
See also
* J. Parnell Thomas, American stockbroker and politician
{{hndis, Parnell, Thomas ...
, Thomas Tickell
Thomas Tickell (17 December 1685 – 23 April 1740) was a minor England, English poet and man of letters.
Life
The son of a clergyman, he was born at Bridekirk near Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was educated at St Bees School 1695–1701, and in ...
, John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peach ...
, Thomas Warton
Thomas Warton (9 January 172821 May 1790) was an English history of literature, literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate in 1785, following the death of William Whitehead (poet ...
, Edward Young
Edward Young ( – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for ''Night-Thoughts'', a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poem ...
and Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele ( – 1 September 1729) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine ''The Spectator (1711), The Spectator'' alongside his close friend Joseph Addison.
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Steel ...
himself[
** Editor, "Written by a lady", ''The Ladies Library'', anthology sometimes attributed to ]Mary Wray
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, to Steele and to George Berkeley
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[
* ]Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. In 1713, he became the Dean (Christianity), dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swi ...
, ''The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd'', published this year, although the book states "1713"[
* ]John Wilmot
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 ( O.S.) – 26 July 1680 ( O.S.)) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court, who reacted against the " spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. Rochester ...
, Earl of Rochester, ''The Works of John Earl of Rochester. Containing Poems, On Several Occasions: His Lordship's Letters To Mr. Savil and Mrs. * * with Valentinian, a Tragedy. Never before Publish'd together'', London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, posthumous
Other
* Antoine Houdart de La Motte, an "improved" version of Homer
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's ''Iliad
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'', with a preface critical of the poet; France
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in poetry" article:
* January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis
Kristijonas Donelaitis (; 1 January 1714 – 18 February 1780) was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor. He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable Lithuanian-speaking minority. H ...
(died 1780
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January–March
* January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.
* February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to all ...
), Lithuanian poet
* November 13 – William Shenstone
William Shenstone (18 November 171411 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of History of gardening#Picturesque and English Landscape gardens, landscape gardening through the development of his estate, ''The ...
(died 1763
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* January 27 – The seat of colonial administration in the Viceroyalty of Brazil is moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro.
* February 1 – The colonial authorities in the Province of North Carolin ...
, English
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poet)
* Date not known:
** Rob Donn
Rob Donn (Brown-haired Rob) (1714–1778) was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Sutherland. It is generally assumed that his name was Robert Mackay (MacAoidh),[1778
Events
January–March
* January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Sea captain, Captain James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution (1771), HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS Discovery (1774), HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu, Oʻahu th ...]
), Scottish
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poet
** Georg Luis (died 1792
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* January 9 – The Treaty of Jassy ends the Russian Empire's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea.
* January 25 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
* February 18 – Thomas Holcrof ...
), German
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poet
** Elias Caspar Reichard (died 1791
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* January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England, to perform a series of concerts.
* January 2 – Northwest Indian War: Big Bottom Massacre – The war begins in the Ohio Count ...
), German
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poet
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in poetry" article:
* June 25 ''(buried)'' – Walter Pope
Walter Pope (''c.'' 1627 – 1714) was an English astronomer and poet. He was the son of Francis Pope and Jane Dod, daughter of the Puritan minister John Dod. He was born in Northamptonshire and was the half brother of John Wilkins, who would ...
(born 1627
Events
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* January 26 – The Dutch ship '' 't Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by François Thijssen, makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
* February 15 – The administrative rura ...
), English
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astronomer and poet
* November 29 – Jerolim Kavanjin
Jerolim Kavanjin, also known as Girolamo Cavagnini (4 February 1641 – 29 November 1714), was a Venetian poet from Spalato (now Split, Croatia) who wrote in the Croatian language.
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(born 1641
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* January 4 – The stratovolcano Mount Parker (Philippines), Mount Parker in the Philippines has a major eruption.
* January 14 – Battle of Malacca (1641), The Battle of Malacca concludes with the D ...
), Croatian poet
* Nozawa Bonchō
was a Japanese haikai poet. He was born in Kanazawa, and spent most of his life in Kyoto working as a doctor. Bonchō was one of Matsuo Bashō's leading disciples and, together with Kyorai, he edited the Bashō school's '' Monkey's Raincoat'' ( ...
野沢 凡兆 (born c. 1640
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* January 17 – A naval battle over ...
), Japanese
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haikai
''Haikai'' ( Japanese 俳諧 ''comic, unorthodox'') may refer in both Japanese and English to ''haikai no renga'' ( renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga. ...
poet
* Benjamin Tompson
Benjamin Tompson (1642 – April 13, 1714) was an American Puritan poet, author, educator and physician from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who is widely considered by historians as the "first native-born poet in America". Fussell, 1953, p. 494 ...
(born 1642
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* January 4 – King Charles I of England, accompanied by soldiers, arrives at a session of the Long Parliament and attempts to arrest his chief opponents, the Five Members, John Hampden, Arthur Haselri ...
), English
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Colonial American
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poet
See also
*Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
*List of years in poetry
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Before 1000 BC
* – '' Kesh Temple Hymn''
* – Enheduanna, ''The Exalta ...
*List of years in literature
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* 18th century in poetry
* 18th century in literature
Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the years 1700–1799.
European literature in the 18th century
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* Augustan poetry
In Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. In English literature, Augustan poetry is a branch of Augu ...
* Scriblerus Club
The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. They were prominent figures in the Augustan Age of English letters. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan ...
Notes
"A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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