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	* September 13 – ] (died ]), ] poet, intellectual and theatrical theorist and at one time a confidant of ]		* September 13 – ] (died ]), ] poet, intellectual and theatrical theorist and at one time a confidant of ]
			William Smith
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			* September 14 – ] (died ]), ] playwright, poet and historian<ref name=dbcal/>
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			** ] (died ]), ] Colonial ] educator, theologian, poet and historian<ref name=dbcal/>
			William Smith

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Overview of the events of 1727 in poetry

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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. She survives until January 28, 1728.

Mather Byles, "A Poem on the Death of His Late Majesty King George ", the author's first published poem, he wrote formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope
John Gay, Fables, I, to be followed by II in 1738, but completed only in 1750
Alexander Pope, Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, a parody of Longinus's treatise on the sublime
Thomson, "Summer"

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September 13 – Johann Friedrich Löwen (died 1771), German poet, intellectual and theatrical theorist and at one time a confidant of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

William Smith

September 14 – Mercy Otis Warren (died 1814), American playwright, poet and historian
Also:
- year uncertain – Thomas Cole (English poet) (died 1796), English
- Johann Joachim Ewald (nothing is known of his life after 1762)), German
- William Smith (died 1803), English Colonial American educator, theologian, poet and historian

William Smith

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

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