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1737 in poetry
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1737 poetry literature
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Events
March 2 – Samuel Johnson and his former pupil David Garrick leave Lichfield to seek their fortunes in London.Grun Bernard The Timetables of History https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist00grun_0 registration 3rd 1991 1946 328
English poet Richard Jago becomes curate of Snitterfield.
Works published
United Kingdom
Henry Carey, The Musical Century, in One Hundred English Ballads, with Carey's musical settingsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Stephen Duck, The Vision, on the November 20 death of Queen Caroline
Richard Glover, Leonidas, in nine books (expanded to 12 in 1770)
Matthew Green, The Spleen, has been called his chief poem; with a preface by his friend Richard Glover (see also, "Deaths" below)
Alexander Pope:
Horace His Ode to Venus
The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of his Friends, the first authorized edition (see Letters of Mr Pope and Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence, both 1735)
The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumes 5 and 6, letters (see also Works 1717, 1735, 1736
Allan Ramsay, 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 last of four volumes, with the first volume published in 1724"Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)" https://web.archive.org/web/20100714164232/http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml 2010-07-14 , article, The Burns Encyclopedia, online edition, retrieved July 1, 2009. 2009-07-21.
William Shenstone, Poems Upon Various Occasions, published anonymously; includes the earliest version of "The School-mistress", with 12 stanzas (expanded version in 28 stanzas published separately in 1742, the final version in 35 stanzas published in Volume 1 of Dodsley's Collection of Poems 1748)
Jonathan Swift, Poems on Several Occasions
John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and HymnsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Other
Ignacio de Luzán, Poética, work of criticism that gives classic rules in Spanish literary composition
Prince Thammathibet, The Legend of Phra Malai (พระมาลัยคำหลวง, Phra Malai), Thai
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (died 1823), German poet and critic
February 3 – Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (died 1801), Colonial American poet and sponsor of literary salonsDavis, Cynthia J. West, Kathryn https://books.google.com/books?id=Yqi0x7BEvCoC&q=Timeline+poetry&pg=PR11 Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History Oxford University Press New York 1996 978-0-19-509053-6 2009-02-07
May 18 – Gottlob Burmann (died 1805), German poet and lipogrammatist
Joseph Mather (died 1804), English file cutter and songwriter
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 – Ignjat Đurđević (born 1675), Croatian poet and translator
February 20 – Elizabeth Rowe, née Singer (born 1674) English novelist, playwright and poet (apoplexy)
March 26 – Vakhtang VI (born 1675), Kartli statesman, legislator, scholar, critic, translator and poet
October 18 – Abel Evans (born 1679), English clergyman, academic and poet
Matthew Green (born 1696); English poet (see Works above)
See also
Poetry
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 Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
Category:18th-century poetry
Poetry