Ebenezer Cooke (attributed; also spelled "Cook"), Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C. Gent, a verse treatise on tobacco cultivation and the problems of the planters of Maryland; thought to be by the author of The Sot-Weed Factor1708, although the two pieces differ widely in tone,
English Colonial
America[1] The idea for the 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor by
John Barth was based on Barth's reading of Cooke's poem
Richard Lewis, "A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, April 4, 1730", called one of the best nature poems in
English Colonial
American literature[1]
Jonathan Swift, A Libel on D---- D--------, and a Certain Great Lord, published anonymously; a satire on
Patrick Delany's Epistle to His Excellency John Lord Carteret of
1729 [although that book states "1730"]; see also An Epistle Upon an Epistle1729)[2]
Elizabeth Thomas, The Metamorphosis of the Town; or, A View of the Present Fashions, published anonymously* "Scriblerus Tertius" a
pen name, possibly of
Thomas Cooke, The Candidates for the Bays[2]
James Thomson, The Seasons, a Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem, including "Autumn" (see also Winter1726, Summer
1727, Spring1728)[2]
Edward Young, Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, published anonymously[2]
Other
Johann Christoph Gottsched, Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen ("Critical Essay on German Poetry"), the first systematic treatise in
German on the art of poetry from the standpoint of
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
year uncertain –
Lucy Terry (died
1821), born in Africa, enslaved at age 5, first known African American poet, author of "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad first printed in
1855[4]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Ebenezer Cooke (attributed; also spelled "Cook"), Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C. Gent, a verse treatise on tobacco cultivation and the problems of the planters of Maryland; thought to be by the author of The Sot-Weed Factor1708, although the two pieces differ widely in tone,
English Colonial
America[1] The idea for the 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor by
John Barth was based on Barth's reading of Cooke's poem
Richard Lewis, "A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, April 4, 1730", called one of the best nature poems in
English Colonial
American literature[1]
Jonathan Swift, A Libel on D---- D--------, and a Certain Great Lord, published anonymously; a satire on
Patrick Delany's Epistle to His Excellency John Lord Carteret of
1729 [although that book states "1730"]; see also An Epistle Upon an Epistle1729)[2]
Elizabeth Thomas, The Metamorphosis of the Town; or, A View of the Present Fashions, published anonymously* "Scriblerus Tertius" a
pen name, possibly of
Thomas Cooke, The Candidates for the Bays[2]
James Thomson, The Seasons, a Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem, including "Autumn" (see also Winter1726, Summer
1727, Spring1728)[2]
Edward Young, Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, published anonymously[2]
Other
Johann Christoph Gottsched, Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen ("Critical Essay on German Poetry"), the first systematic treatise in
German on the art of poetry from the standpoint of
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
year uncertain –
Lucy Terry (died
1821), born in Africa, enslaved at age 5, first known African American poet, author of "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad first printed in
1855[4]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: