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Events


During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.




Works published






= United Kingdom

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Mark Akenside, A British Philippic, published anonymously
John Banks, Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose
Mather Byles, On the Death of the Queen, English, Colonial America
Elizabeth Carter, Poems Upon Particular Occasions, published anonymously
Robert Dodsley, The Art of Preaching, published anonymously
John Gay, Fables: Volume the Second (see also Fables 1727)
Samuel Johnson, London, A Poem, on the Third Satire of Juvenal
Alexander Pope:
The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II
The Universal Prayer
(see also Pope and Swift, below)
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (later Duchess of Somerset), writing as "The Right Hon. the Countess of ****", The Story of Inkle and Yarrico, includes "An Epistle From Yarrico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery", an imitation of Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard", a part of his Works 1717)
Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Pope's contribution was anonymous; Part 1, by Swift, had previously appeared in Miscellanies, "The Last Volume" (that is, Volume 3) 1727
Jonathan Swift (see also Pope and Swift above), "The Beasts' Confession"
and Alexander Pope, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace
James Thomson, The Works of Mr. Thomson
John Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (first published in Charlestown 1737, see also A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1741)




= Other

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Johann Jakob Bodmer, Critical Disquisition on the Wonderful in Poetry, a defense of John Milton; German-language, Switzerland




Births


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

February 9 (bapt.) – Mary Whateley (married name: Darwall) (died 1825), English poet and playwright
May 9 – John Wolcot (died 1819), English satirist and poet
May 27 – Moritz August von Thümmel (died 1817), German humorist and satirical author
June 5 (bapt.) – Erika Liebman (died 1803), Swedish poet and academic
June 16 – Johann Christoph Krauseneck (died 1799), German composer and poet
November 8 – Barbara Catharina Mjödh (died 1776), Swedish poet
December 4 – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (died 1809), German poet, playwright and storyteller
Approximate date – Edward Thompson (died 1786), English Royal Navy officer and poet




Deaths


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

April – Penelope Aubin (born c. 1679), English novelist and translator
August 2 – Ueshima Onitsura (born 1661), Japanese haiku poet
December 19 – Philip Frowde (born c. 1679), English poet and playwright




See also



Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
18th century in poetry
18th century in literature
Augustan poetry
Scriblerus Club




Notes



[1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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