| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
- About this time Thomas Seaton established the Seatonian Prize at Cambridge University for religious poetry
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle [1]
- Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way [1]
- Thomas Francklin, Of the Nature of the Gods, anonymously published translation from the Latin of Cicero's De natura deorum [1]
- Sarah Parsons Moorhead, "Lines [. . .] Dedicated to the Rev. Mr. George Tennent", sharply criticizes the clergyman; English Colonial American [2]
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously [1]
- William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules [1]
- Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy [1]
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (see also Hymns and Sacred Poems 1739) [1]
- William Whitehead, The Danger of Writing Verse
- Johann Jakob Bodmer, Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 25 – Daniel Schiebeler (died 1771) German writer and poet
- April 11 – Johann Heinrich Merck (died 1791), German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet
- November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater (died 1801), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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
 | This year in poetry article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
- About this time Thomas Seaton established the Seatonian Prize at Cambridge University for religious poetry
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle [1]
- Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way [1]
- Thomas Francklin, Of the Nature of the Gods, anonymously published translation from the Latin of Cicero's De natura deorum [1]
- Sarah Parsons Moorhead, "Lines [. . .] Dedicated to the Rev. Mr. George Tennent", sharply criticizes the clergyman; English Colonial American [2]
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously [1]
- William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules [1]
- Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy [1]
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (see also Hymns and Sacred Poems 1739) [1]
- William Whitehead, The Danger of Writing Verse
- Johann Jakob Bodmer, Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 25 – Daniel Schiebeler (died 1771) German writer and poet
- April 11 – Johann Heinrich Merck (died 1791), German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet
- November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater (died 1801), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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
|
| This year in poetry article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |