1724 in poetry

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Works published in English
===Great Britain
 * Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated
 * Eliza Haywood, Poems on several Occasions, published anonymously, issued in Volume 4 of a set of Works, likely published together
 * Allan Ramsay
 * Editor, The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots poems, in two volumes, the only two of the planned four volumes to be published; Scotland
 * Health
 * Co-author and editor, The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English, composed or amended by Ramsay and his friends, the first of four volumes, with the last volume published in 1737
 * Elizabeth Tollet, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously
 * William Warburton, Miscellaneous Translations, in Prose and Verse
 * Leonard Welsted, Epistles, Odes &c., Written on Several Subjects

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (died 1803), German poet
 * Christopher Anstey (died 1805), English writer and poet
 * Frances Brooke (died 1789), English novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and translator
 * Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (died 1770), German
 * Frances Greville (died 1789), Irish poet
 * Henriette Louise von Hayn (died 1782), German
 * Johann Franz von Palthen (died 1804), German
 * Duncan Ban MacIntyre (died 1812), Scottish Gaelic poet
 * William Mason (died 1797), English poet, editor and gardener
 * Karl Wilhelm Ramler (died 1798), German poet
 * Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (died 1787), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
 * Diamante Medaglia Faini (died 1770), Italian poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 12 – Elkanah Settle (born 1648), was an English poet and playwright
 * August 15 – Manko 万乎| (birth year unknown), Japanese middle Edo period poet and wealthy merchant; apprentice of Matsuo Bashō; has poems in Sarumino, Sumidawara and Zoku-sarumino
 * Hanabusa Itchō (born 1652), Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet