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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...
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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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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...
- Robert BlairRobert Blair (poet)Robert Blair was a Scottish poet.-Biography:He was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Blair, one of the king's chaplains, and was born at Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and in the Netherlands, and in 1731 was appointed to the living of Athelstaneford in East Lothian...
, The Grave a work representative of the Graveyard poetsGraveyard poetsThe "Graveyard Poets" were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, 'skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms' in the context of the graveyard. To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny,...
movement - Samuel BoyseSamuel BoyseSamuel Boyse was an Irish poet and writer who worked for Sir Robert Walpole and whose religious verses in particular were prized and reprinted in his time.-Life:...
, Albion's Triumph - James BramstonJames BramstonJames Bramston , satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics , in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste , in imitation of Pope. He also parodied Phillips's Splendid Shilling in The Crooked Sixpence. His...
, The Crooked Six-pence, published anonymously, attributed to Bramston by Isaac ReedIsaac ReedIsaac Reed was an English Shakespearean editor.-Life:The son of a baker, he was born in London. He was articled to a solicitor, and eventually set up as a conveyancer at Staple Inn, where he had a large practice.-Works:...
in his Repository 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...
; a parody of John PhilipsJohn PhilipsJohn Philips was an 18th century English poet.- Early life and education :Philips was born at Bampton, Oxfordshire, the son of Rev. Stephen Philips, later archdeacon of Salop, and his wife Mary Wood. He was at first taught by his father and then went to Winchester College...
' The Splendid Shilling 17051705 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Daniel Defoe:** The Double Welcome: A poem to the Duke of Marlbro...
, and that poem's text is included in this publication - William CollinsWilliam Collins (poet)William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century...
, Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespear's Works, published anonymously "By a Gentleman of Oxford" - Thomas CookeThomas CookeThis page is about the instrument maker. For other persons named Thomas Cooke, see Thomas CookeThomas Cooke was a British instrument maker based on York. He founded T. Cooke & Sons, the instrument company-Life:...
, An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury - Philip DoddridgePhilip DoddridgePhilip Doddridge DD was an English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter.-Early life:...
, The Principles of the Christian Religion - Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
, Pain and Patience - Philip FrancisPhilip Francis (translator)Philip Francis was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer, now remembered as a translator of Horace.-Life:He was son of Dr. John Francis, rector of St. Mary's, Dublin , and dean of Lismore, and was born about 1708. He was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, taking the degree of B.A...
, translator, The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of HoraceHoraceQuintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...
, very popular translation, published this year in London (originally published in 17421742 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jonathan Swift suffers what appears to have been a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realizing his worst fears of becoming mentally disabled...
in Dublin; two more volumes, The Satires of Horace and The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace published 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...
; see also A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace 17471747 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir William Blackstone, The Panthion, published anonymously, attribution uncertain* William Dunkin, Boeotia...
)); IrishIrish poetryThe 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...
writer published in England - Joseph Green (poet)Joseph Green (poet)Joseph Green was an English Colonial American clergyman and poet who published in 1743, "The Disappointed Cooper", mocking an old man's marriage to a much younger woman as well as criticizing the behavior of some New Light ministers....
, "The Disappointed Cooper", mocking an old man's marriage to a woman half his age and criticizing the behavior of some New Light ministers; 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 - Aaron Hill, The Fanciad: An heroic poem, published anonymously
- David MalletDavid Mallet (writer)David Mallet was a Scottish dramatist.He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to London in 1723 to work as a private tutor...
, Poems on Several Occasions - 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 New Dunciad - William WhiteheadWilliam Whitehead__FORCETOC__William Whitehead was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position.-Life:...
, An Essay on Ridicule
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- André Philippe de Prétot, Le Recueil du Parnasse, ou, nouveau choix de pieces fugitives en prose & en vers, Paris: Chez Briasson, FranceFrench 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:...
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- March 14 – Hannah CowleyHannah CowleyHannah Cowley was an English dramatist and poet. Although Cowley’s plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the nineteenth century, critic Melinda Finberg rates Cowley as “one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century” whose “skill in writing fluid, sparkling dialogue...
(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 and poet - June 20 – Anna Laetitia BarbauldAnna Laetitia BarbauldAnna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author.A "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when female professional writers were rare...
, (died 18251825 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* La bibliothèque canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, begins publishing this year - United Kingdom :* Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited...
), English poet, essayist, and children's author - November 18 – Johannes EwaldJohannes EwaldJohannes Ewald was a Danish national dramatist and poet.-Biography:Ewald, normally regarded as the most important Danish poet of the 2nd half of the 18th Century, led a short and troubled life, marked by alcoholism and poor health...
(died 17811781 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:Image:JoshuaReynoldsParty.jpg|A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this year...
), DanishDanish literatureDanish literature, a subset of Scandinavian literature, stretches back to the Middle Ages. Of special note across the centuries are the historian Saxo Grammaticus, the playwright Ludvig Holberg, the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and Karen Blixen who...
national dramatist and poet - December 10 – Johann Christoph Schwab (died 18211821 in poetry— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his requestNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia...
), German - December 23 – Ippolit BogdanovichIppolit BogdanovichIppolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich was a Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka .- Biography :...
(died 18031803 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* First appearance of the Literary Magazine and American Register, a United States monthly published in Philadelphia and edited by Charles Brockden Brown until 1807, when it became a semiannual...
), RussianRussian literatureRussian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...
classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka - Also:
- Eibhlín Dubh Ní ChonaillEibhlín Dubh Ní ChonaillEibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill also Eileen O' Connell, was an Irish noblewoman and poet, the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire....
(died 18001800 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward...
), Irish noblewoman and poet, the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí LaoghaireCaoineadh Airt Uí LaoghaireCaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or the Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire is an Irish keen, or dirge written by his wife Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill. It has been described as the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century....
- Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- James BramstonJames BramstonJames Bramston , satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics , in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste , in imitation of Pope. He also parodied Phillips's Splendid Shilling in The Crooked Sixpence. His...
(born 16941694 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Joseph Addison, An Account of the Greatest English Poets...
), English satirist and poet - May 6 – Andrew Michael RamsayAndrew Michael RamsayAndrew Michael Ramsay , commonly called the Chevalier Ramsay, was a Scottish-born writer who lived most of his adult life in France. He was a Baronet in the Jacobite Peerage....
(born 16861686 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sarah Fyge Egerton , The Female Advocate, published anonymously in reply to Robert Gould's Love Given O're 1682* Thomas Flatman, A Song for St Caecilia's Day* Anne Killigrew, Poems by Mrs...
), Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France - October 5 – 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...
(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...
), English poet, dramatist and song-writer - date not known – Josiah Relph
- date not known – 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....
(born 16971697 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Familiar Letters: Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester. And several other Persons of Honour and Quality, 2 volumes, London: Printed by W...
), English 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...
- 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...