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

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Works published[]

Colonial America[]

  • Joseph Green (poet), "The Disappointed Cooper", mocking an old man's marriage to a woman half his age and criticizing the behavior of some New Light ministers; English Colonial America[1]

Great Britain[]

  • Robert Blair, The Grave[2] a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement
  • Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph[2]
  • James Bramston, The Crooked Six-pence, published anonymously, attributed to Bramston by Isaac Reed in his Repository 1777; a parody of John Philips' The Splendid Shilling 1705, and that poem's text is included in this publication[2]
  • William Collins, Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespear's Works, published anonymously "By a Gentleman of Oxford"[2]
  • Thomas Cooke, An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury[2]
  • Philip Doddridge, The Principles of the Christian Religion[2]
  • Robert Dodsley, Pain and Patience[2]
  • Philip Francis, translator, The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, very popular translation, published this year in London (originally published in 1742 in Dublin; two more volumes, The Satires of Horace and The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace published 1746; see also A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace 1747)); Irish writer published in England[2]
  • Aaron Hill, The Fanciad: An heroic poem, published anonymously[2]
  • David Mallet, Poems on Several Occasions[2]
  • Alexander Pope, The New Dunciad
  • William Whitehead, An Essay on Ridicule[2]

Other languages[]

  • André Philippe de Prétot, Le Recueil du Parnasse, ou, nouveau choix de pieces fugitives en prose & en vers, Paris: Chez Briasson, France

Births[]

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

Also
    • Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (died 1800), Irish noblewoman and poet, the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire

Deaths[]

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

  • May 6 – Andrew Michael Ramsay (born 1686), Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France
  • October 5 – Henry Carey (born 1687), English poet, dramatist and song-writer
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Notes[]

  1. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

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