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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

• 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:

• 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

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

• John Reynolds

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

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

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