• Source: 1744 in poetry

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Events






Works published






= Colonial America

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John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health
Mather Byles, Poems on Several Occasions, 31 poems written since 1727; he wrote a range of poetic forms in formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope
James Logan, Cicero's Cato Major, a verse translation
Jane Turell, Memoirs, a collection of pious poems already published as Reliquiae Turellae together with secular verses (posthumous)




= United Kingdom

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Anonymous, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the first extant collection of nursery rhymes
Mark Akenside:
The Pleasures of the Imagination, a long, didactic, enormously popular poem that remained in print through most of the century (revised 1757)
An Epistle to Curio, published anonymously in November; "Curio" is William Pulteney, Earl of Bath
John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health
Jane Brereton, Poems on Several Occasions, the book states it was published this year, but it may have been published in January 1745, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
Henry Brooke, see Edward Moore, below
Edward Moore and Henry Brooke, Fables for the Female Sex, published anonymously; Henry Brooke wrote the last three fables
Samuel Johnson:
editor, An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier, on the late poet, compiled by Johnson from François Baratier's letters; published anonymously
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, on the late poet; the first major biography published by Johnson; published anonymously
Joseph Warton, Enthusiast; or, The Lover of Nature, published anonymously on March 8
John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
Paul Whitehead, The Gymnasiad; or, Boxing Match




Births


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

July 19 – Heinrich Christian Boie (died 1806), German author and poet
August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder (died 1803), German philosopher, poet, and literary critic
November 26 – Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff (1785), German
November 30 – Karl Ludwig von Knebel (died 1834), German poet and translator
Also:
Werner Hans Frederik Abrahamson (died 1812), Danish




Deaths


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

April 27 – James Miller (born 1704), English playwright, poet and satirist
May 30 – Alexander Pope (born 1688), 56, English poet
September 18 – Lewis Theobald (born 1688), English poet, playwright, translator and editor of Shakespeare




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




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