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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:...
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Events
- With the death of Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
, the age of 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...
ends at about this time. - End 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...
Works published
- John AdamsJohn Adams (poet)John Adams was an American poet.-Biography:Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was...
, Poems on Several Occasions, Biblical verse paraphrases, devotional works and nonreligious poems; 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 - Mark AkensideMark AkensideMark Akenside was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver...
, Odes on Several Subjects, published anonymously - John BrownJohn Brown (essayist)John Brown was an English divine and author.His father, a descendant of the Browns of Coalston, near Haddington, became Vicar of Wigton in that year...
, An Essay on Satire: Occasion'd by the death of Mr. Pope, published anonymously; 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...
died May 30, 17441744 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health... - John Gilbert CooperJohn Gilbert CooperJohn Gilbert Cooper or John Gilbert was a British poet and writer.-Biography:John Gilbert was born in Lockington, Leicestershire. His father was left a legacy which included Thurgarton Priory which he was allowed if he changed his name to Cooper...
, The Power of Harmony, published anonymously - Charles JennensCharles JennensCharles Jennens was an English landowner and patron of the arts, who assembled the text for five of Handel's oratorios: Saul, Israel in Egypt, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Messiah, and Belshazzar...
, Belshazzar: An oratorio, verse and music; performed in March; music by Handel - Samuel MaddenSamuel MaddenSamuel Madden was an Irish author. His works include Themistocles; The Lover of His Country, Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, and Memoirs of the Twentieth Century. Dr...
, Boulter's Monument, "Assisted by Samuel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
", according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature - Moses Mendes, translator, Henry and Blanche; or, The Revengful Marriage, from the FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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:...
of Alain-Rene LesageAlain-René LesageAlain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks , his comedy Turcaret , and his picaresque novel Gil Blas .-Youth and education:Claude Lesage, the father of the novelist, held the united... - Glocester RidleyGlocester Ridley-Life:Called 'Glocester' because he was born at sea in the Glocester East Indian in 1702, Glocester Ridley was a collateral descendant of Bishop Nicholas Ridley, and son of Matthew Ridley of Bencoolen, East Indies . He was educated at Winchester College, becoming scholar in 1718, when he was...
, Jovi Eleutherio; or, An Offering to Liberty, published anonymously - Thomas ScottThomas ScottThomas Scott may refer to:Australia:*Thomas Hobbes Scott , Anglican clergyman and first Archdeacon of New South WalesCanada:*Thomas Scott , judge and political figure in Upper Canada...
, England's Danger and Duty, published anonymously - William ThompsonWilliam Thompson-Academics and scientists:* William Thompson , Irish ornithologist and botanist* William Thompson , Englishman who developed the Thompson Seedless grape...
, Sickness, first two books (Book 3, 17461746 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Lucy Terry writes the first known poem by an African American, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", about an Indian massacre of two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts; the ballad was related orally...
)
Births
- February 20 – Henry James PyeHenry James PyeHenry James Pye was an English poet. Pye was Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. He was the first poet laureate to receive a fixed salary of £27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine Henry James Pye (20 February 1745 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet. Pye was Poet Laureate...
(died 18131813 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate after Sir Walter Scott's refusal...
), 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...
poet - July 5 – Carl Arnold KortumCarl Arnold KortumCarl Arnold Kortum was a German physician, but best known for his writing and poetry.Born in Mülheim, Kortum studied medicine and was from 1771 physician in Bochum, where he died in 1824....
(died 18241824 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature...
), German writer, poet and physician - August – Henry MackenzieHenry MackenzieHenry Mackenzie was a Scottish novelist and miscellaneous writer. He was also known by the sobriquet "Addison of the North."-Biography:Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh....
(died 18311831 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* John Banim and Michael Banim, The Chaunt of the Cholera* Henry Glassford Bell, Summer and Winter Hours...
), Scottish novelist, writer and poet - October 12 – Félix María de SamaniegoFelix Maria de SamaniegoFélix María de Samaniego , born and died in Laguardia, Álava, in the Basque Country, was a Spanish neoclassical fabulist, educated at Valladolid...
(died 18011801 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Hindusthani Press established in Calcutta, India by John Gilchrist-United Kingdom:...
), SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
Also:
- William CroweWilliam Crowe (poet)William Crowe was an English poet, born in Midgham, Berkshire, England. He was the son of a carpenter and was educated as a foundationer at Winchester. He then proceeded to Oxford, where he became Public Orator. He wrote a smooth, but somewhat...
(died 18291829 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The American Monthly Magazine is started in Boston by Nathaniel Parker Willis as a humorous and satirical magazine with essays, fiction, criticism, poetry and humor, largely written by the editor...
), 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...
poet - Charles DibdinCharles DibdinCharles Dibdin was a British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter. The son of a parish clerk, he was born in Southampton on or before 4 March 1745, and was the youngest of a family of 18....
(died 18141814 in poetry* Augusta Gordon bore her half-brother Lord Byron's daughter* July 27 - Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's stepsister, Mary Jane Clairmont, 16; the trio quickly moves on to Switzerland...
), 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...
musician, dramatist, novelist, poet, actor and songwriter - William HayleyWilliam HayleyWilliam Hayley was an English writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William Cowper.-Biography:...
(died 18201820 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Formation of the Apostles, a Cambridge University intellectual society...
), 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...
poet and writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William CowperWilliam CowperWilliam Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry... - Thomas HolcroftThomas HolcroftThomas Holcroft was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.-Early life:He was born in Orange Court, Leicester Fields, London. His father had a shoemaker's shop, and kept riding horses for hire; but having fallen into difficulties was reduced to the status of hawking peddler...
(died 18091809 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers", his anonymous response to the Edinburgh Review's attack on his 1807 work, Hours of Idleness; this year's response created considerable stir...
), 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...
dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer - Hannah MoreHannah MoreHannah More was an English religious writer, and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical...
(died 18331833 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Arthur Henry Hallam, a friend of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, dies suddenly of a stroke in Vienna...
), 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...
religious writer, poet, play and philanthropist - Charles Morris
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- October 19 – Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
(born 16671667 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Billingsley, Thesauro-Phulakion; or, A Treasury of Divine Raptures...
), , IrishEnglish 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...
cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet - William BroomeWilliam BroomeWilliam Broome was an English poet and translator. He was born in Haslington, near Crewe, Cheshire and died in Bath.He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, entered the Church, and became rector of Sturston in Suffolk, and later Pulham in Norfolk and Eye in Suffolk...
(born 16891689 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Thomas Shadwell appointed poet laureate* Matsuo Bashō visits Kisakata, Akita, and later composes a waka about Kisakata's islands...
), English poet and translator - Mary ChandlerMary ChandlerMary Chandler was an English poet. George Crabb writes that she left several poems, ‘the most esteemed of which was her “Bath”’.-Life:...
(born 16871687 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained-Great Britain:* John Cutts, , Poetical Exercises written on...
), 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...
; she left several poems - Pierre Desmaiseaux (born 16731673 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir William Davenant, The Works of Sr William D'Avenant, prose and poetry* John Milton, Poems, &...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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:...
writer and poet - Sarah Dixon
- Jonathan Richardson
- Thomas WartonThomas WartonThomas Warton was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England...
the elder (born 17281728 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , "An Elegy on [....
), English literary historian and critic, as well as a poet - William MestonWilliam MestonWilliam Meston was a Scottish poet.The son of a blacksmith, he was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, took part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, and had to go into hiding. His Knight of the Kirk is an imitation of Hudibras....
(born 16881688 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* After John Dryden refused to swear allegiance to the new government after James II of England was deposed, the writer was dismissed as poet laureate of England, to be replaced by his old enemy,...
), Scottish poet
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...