1724 in poetry
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Events
Works published
- Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated[1]
- Eliza Haywood, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously, issued in Volume 4 of a set of Works, likely published together[1]
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband"[2]
- Allan Ramsay
- Editor, The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots poems,[1] in two volumes, the only two of the planned four volumes to be published; Scotland[3]
- Health[1]
- Co-author and editor, The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English, composed or amended by Ramsay and his friends, the first of four volumes, with the last volume published in 1737[3]
- Elizabeth Tollet, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously[1]
- William Warburton, Miscellaneous Translations, in Prose and Verse[1]
- Leonard Welsted, Epistles, Odes &c., Written on Several Subjects[1]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 12 – Frances Brooke, née Moore (died 1789), English novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and translator
- February 12 – William Mason (died 1797), English poet, editor and gardener
- February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (died 1798), German poet
- March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre (died 1812), Scottish Gaelic poet
- May 18 – Magtymguly Pyragy (died c. 1807), Turkmen spiritual leader and poet
- July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (died 1803), German poet[4]
- August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini (died 1770), Italian poet
- August 30 – Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (died 1787), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
- October 31 – Christopher Anstey (died 1805), English writer and poet
- Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (died 1770), German
- Frances Greville (died 1789), Irish poet
- Henriette Louise von Hayn (died 1782), German
- Johann Franz von Palthen (died 1804), German
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō (born 1652), Japanese painter, calligrapher and haiku poet
- February 12 – Elkanah Settle (born 1648), English poet and playwright
- August 15 – Manko 万乎| (birth year unknown), Japanese middle Edo period poet and wealthy merchant; apprentice of Matsuo Bashō; has poems in Sarumino, Sumidawara and Zoku-sarumino
See also
- Poetry
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- Augustan poetry
- Scriblerus Club
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine E., eds. (2009). British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 171.
- ^ a b "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)". The Burns Encyclopedia (Online ed.). 2009-07-21. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
- ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328.
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto