1726 in poetry
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).
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's poem, Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----, published this year (some sources give the publication year as 1725
), satirizes the poetry of Ambrose Philips
, with the name a play on the first three letters of "Ambrose". Carey and others, including John Gay
, Alexander Pope
and Jonathan Swift
, used the term as a disparaging nickname for Philips, but this year Carey was the first to put it into print. Carey's poem, a reaction against the style of Philips' To the Honourable Miss Carteret of 1725
, mimicked the cloying, overly sentimental reduplication
in some verse Phillips had written for children or as elegies of dead children, such as these opening lines from Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in Her Mother’s Arms:
Compare with Carey's lampoon of this year:
In The Dunciad
(1733
), Pope would also make fun of Philips: "Beneath his reign, shall [...] Namby Pamby be prefer'd for Wit!" Pope despised Philips for both political and professional reasons, in part because Whig critics such as Joseph Addison
had compared Philips' rustic verse favorably to that of Pope, a Tory. Within a generation, "Namby Pamby" began to broaden its meaning, so that in William Ayres
' Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope of 1745
, Jonathan Swift
was said to be referring to the "Namby Pamby Stile" of writing. By 1774, the meaning had broadened further, covering anything ineffectual or weak, so that The Westmoreland Magazine could refer to "A namby-pamby Duke". The hyphenated phrase now covers anything ineffectual or affectedly sentimental.
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
).
United KingdomEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Henry BakerHenry Baker (naturalist)Henry Baker was an English naturalist.-Life:He was born in Chancery Lane, London, 8 May 1698, the son of William Baker, a clerk in chancery. In his fifteenth year he was apprenticed to John Parker, a bookseller...
, The Second Part of Original Poems: Serious and Humorous (see also Original Poems 17251725 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Scottish poet James Thomson moves to London, where he continues writing verse and becomes a playwright, living first in East Barnet and later Richmond in 1736.* Edward Taylor, a puritan minister in...
) - Ebenezer CookeEbenezer CookeEbenezer Cooke , a London-born poet, wrote what some scholars consider the first American satire: “The Sotweed Factor, or A Voyage to Maryland, A Satyr”...
(attributed; also spelled "Cook"), "An ELOGY on the Death of Thomas Bordley, Esq.", the first of four elegies attributed to Cooke; EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
Colonial America - Henry CareyHenry Carey (writer)Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death...
, Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----, including fragments of many still-popular nursery rhymes, such as "London Bridge is broken down" (see "Namby-pamby" section, below); Dublin - Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
, The Odyssey of Homer, Volumes 4 (Books 15–19) and 5 (Books 20–29); (see also Volumes 1–3 17251725 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Scottish poet James Thomson moves to London, where he continues writing verse and becomes a playwright, living first in East Barnet and later Richmond in 1736.* Edward Taylor, a puritan minister in...
) - William PulteneyWilliam Pulteney, 1st Earl of BathWilliam Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, PC was an English politician, a Whig, created the first Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II; he is sometimes stated to have been Prime Minister, for the shortest term ever , though most modern sources reckon that he cannot be considered to have held the...
and Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
, The Discovery; or, The Squire Turn'd Ferret, published anonymously; satirical ballad on the claim of Mary Toft that she had given birth to rabbits; published this year, although the book states "1727" - Richard SavageRichard SavageRichard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage , on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets....
, Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, an anthology including poems by Savage, Aaron Hill, John DyerJohn DyerJohn Dyer was a painter and Welsh poet turned clergyman of the Church of England who maintained an interest in his Welsh ancestry...
("Grongar Hill", his first poem, written in Pindaric style, rewritten and published separately in 17271727 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jonathan Swift revisits England this year and stays with his friend Alexander Pope until the visit is cut short when Swift gets word that Esther Johnson is dying. He rushes back...
) and others, as well as Savage's prose sketch of his early life - William SomervileWilliam SomervileWilliam Somervile or Somerville was an English poet.-Ancestry:The name Somervile is derived from a town near Caen in Normandy subsequently named Somervile....
, Occasional Poems, Translations, Fables, Tales, &c, published this year, although the book states "1727" - Joseph SpenceJoseph Spence (author)Joseph Spence was a historian, literary scholar and anecdotist, most famous for his collection of anecdotes that are an invaluable resource for historians of 18th century English literature .- Early life :Spence was born on 28 April 1699, at Kingsclere, Hampshire, the son of Joseph Joseph Spence...
- An Essay on Pope's Odyssey, published anonymously; on Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
's translation of HomerHomerIn the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
's OdysseyOdysseyThe Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...
(see above) - Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
, Cadenus and Vanessa, anonymously published; written in 17131713 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips* Abel Evans, Vertumnus* Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea,...
for Esther VanhomrighEsther VanhomrighEsther Vanhomrigh , an Irish woman of Dutch descent, was a longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. Swift's letters to her were published after her death...
(died 1713), the "Vanessa" of the title (the name was created from the "Van" in her surname and "Esse", the pet form of "Esther") - James Thomson, Winter, a popular poem first published in April, with five editions by March 1728; in 17301730 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English, Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C...
the poem was expanded to 787 lines (see also Summer 17271727 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jonathan Swift revisits England this year and stays with his friend Alexander Pope until the visit is cut short when Swift gets word that Esther Johnson is dying. He rushes back...
, Spring 17281728 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , "An Elegy on [....
, The Seasons 17301730 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English, Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C...
)
"Namby–Pamby" first appears
Henry CareyHenry Carey (writer)
Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death...
's poem, Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----, published this year (some sources give the publication year as 1725
1725 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Scottish poet James Thomson moves to London, where he continues writing verse and becomes a playwright, living first in East Barnet and later Richmond in 1736.* Edward Taylor, a puritan minister in...
), satirizes the poetry of Ambrose Philips
Ambrose Philips
-Life:He was born in Shropshire of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1699. He seems to have lived chiefly at Cambridge until he resigned his fellowship in 1708, and his pastorals were probably written in...
, with the name a play on the first three letters of "Ambrose". Carey and others, including John Gay
John Gay
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
, Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
and Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
, used the term as a disparaging nickname for Philips, but this year Carey was the first to put it into print. Carey's poem, a reaction against the style of Philips' To the Honourable Miss Carteret of 1725
1725 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Scottish poet James Thomson moves to London, where he continues writing verse and becomes a playwright, living first in East Barnet and later Richmond in 1736.* Edward Taylor, a puritan minister in...
, mimicked the cloying, overly sentimental reduplication
Reduplication
Reduplication in linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word is repeated exactly or with a slight change....
in some verse Phillips had written for children or as elegies of dead children, such as these opening lines from Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in Her Mother’s Arms:
-
- Timely blossom, infant fair,
- Fondling of a happy pair,
- Every morn and every night
- Their solicitous delight
Compare with Carey's lampoon of this year:
-
- All ye poets of the age,
- All ye witlings of the stage …
- Namby-Pamby is your guide,
- Albion's joy, Hibernia's pride.
- Namby-Pamby, pilly-piss,
- Rhimy-pim'd on Missy Miss
- Tartaretta Tartaree
- From the navel to the knee;
- That her father's gracy grace
- Might give him a placy place.
In The Dunciad
The Dunciad
The Dunciad is a landmark literary satire by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times. The first version was published in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in 1729. The New Dunciad, in four books and with a...
(1733
1733 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Anonymous, Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, "By a lady", has been attributed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu* John Banks, Poems on Several...
), Pope would also make fun of Philips: "Beneath his reign, shall [...] Namby Pamby be prefer'd for Wit!" Pope despised Philips for both political and professional reasons, in part because Whig critics such as Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
had compared Philips' rustic verse favorably to that of Pope, a Tory. Within a generation, "Namby Pamby" began to broaden its meaning, so that in William Ayres
William Ayres
William Ayres may refer to:*William Augustus Ayres , Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas*William Hanes Ayres , Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio...
' Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope of 1745
1745 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* With the death of Jonathan Swift, the age of Augustan poetry ends at about this time.* End of the Scriblerus Club-Works published:...
, Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
was said to be referring to the "Namby Pamby Stile" of writing. By 1774, the meaning had broadened further, covering anything ineffectual or weak, so that The Westmoreland Magazine could refer to "A namby-pamby Duke". The hyphenated phrase now covers anything ineffectual or affectedly sentimental.
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Le Quy DonLe Quy DonLê Quý Đôn was an 18th-century Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế Đường. He was a native of Duyen Ha village in present-day Thai Binh Province...
, VietnameseVietnamese poetryVietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include six-eight, couplet of seven sextuplet of eight, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven words ...
(died 17841784 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature and music, which began in the late 1760s...
), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official - January 28 – Christian Felix WeißeChristian Felix WeißeChristian Felix Weiße was a German writer and pedagogue. Weiße was among the leading representatives of the Enlightenment in Germany and is regarded as the founder of German children's literature.-Life:...
(died 18041804 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Wordsworth writes "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", inspired by an incident on April 15, 1802 in which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a "long belt" of daffodils...
), German - May 1 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (died 17771777 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published...
), German writer, translator and editor and composer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- date not known – SonomeSonomeShiba Sonome was a Japanese zen poetess. She was an acquaintance and friend of Matsuo Bashō, and their correspondence is a treasure of zen and haiku history....
斯波 園女 (born 16641664 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Henry Bold, Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique...
), JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
woman poet, friend and noted correspondent of Matsuo BashōMatsuo Basho, born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku...
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry18th century in poetry-Decades and years:...
- 18th century in literature18th century in literatureSee also: 18th century in poetry, 17th century in literature, other events of the 18th century, 19th century in literature, list of years in literature.Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the 18th century....
- Augustan poetryAugustan poetryIn 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 Augustan literature, and refers to the poetry of the...
- Scriblerus ClubScriblerus ClubThe Scriblerus Club was an informal group of friends that included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John and Thomas Parnell. The group was founded in 1712 and lasted until the death of the founders, starting in 1732 and ending in 1745, with Pope and Swift being...