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1727 in poetry

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List of years in poetry

In literature: 1724; 1725; 1726; 1727; 1728; 1729; 1730

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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

File:Alexander Pope ca 1727.png

Alexander Pope, circa 1727

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

exact year uncertain - Thomas Cole (English poet) (died 1796), English
September 13 - Johann Friedrich Löwen (died 1771), German poet, intellectual and theatrical theorist and at one time a confidant of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
date not known - Johann Joachim Ewald (nothing is known of his life after 1762)), German

Deaths

John Reynolds

See also

Notes

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

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