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Events

• 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.

Works published

• 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"

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

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

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• John Reynolds

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry

Notes

1. ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books

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

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