1730 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Colley Cibber made British Poet Laureate
Works published
English, Colonial America
- The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barthwas based on Barth's reading of Cooke's poem
- Richard Lewis, "A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, April 4, 1730", called one of the best nature poems in English Colonial American literature[1]
United Kingdom
- John Banks, The Weaver's Miscellany[2]
- Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Subjects[2] (including "The Thresher's Labour")
- Walter Harte, Essay on Satire, criticism in verse[3]
- Aaron Hill, The Progress of Wit
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, An Epistle to Mr. Pope, published anonymously[2]
- Matthew Pilkington, Poems on Several Occasions[2]
- Jonathan Swift, A Libel on D---- D--------, and a Certain Great Lord, published anonymously; a satire on Patrick Delany's Epistle to His Excellency John Lord Carteret of 1729 [although that book states "1730"]; see also An Epistle Upon an Epistle 1729)[2]
- Elizabeth Thomas, The Metamorphosis of the Town; or, A View of the Present Fashions, published anonymously* "Scriblerus Tertius" a pen name, possibly of Thomas Cooke, The Candidates for the Bays[2]
- "Scriblerus Tertius" a pen name, possibly of Thomas Cooke, The Candidates for the Bays[2]
- Edward Young, Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, published anonymously[2]
Other
- German on the art of poetry from the standpoint of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 – John Scott of Amwell (died 1783), English Quaker poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
- March 27 – Thomas Tyrwhitt (died 1786) English classical scholar and critic
- April 1 – German-language poet
- June 21 – Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 (died 1801), Japanese Edo period scholar of Kokugaku, physician and poet (surname: Motoori)
- November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith (died 1774), Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician
- Also:
- Charlotte Lennox (died 1804), British writer and poet (born in Gibraltar to Scottish and Irish parents)
- Telugupoet (a woman)
- year uncertain – Lucy Terry (died 1821), born in Africa, enslaved at age 5, first known African American poet, author of "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad first printed in 1855[4]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 16 – Elijah Fenton (born 1683), English poet[5]
- September 27 – Poet Laureate
- December 14 – Swedishwriter, poet, feminist and salon hostess
- unknown date:
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
- ^ ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- ^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996
ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
- ^ 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
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