1730 in poetry explained
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Events
- Colley Cibber made British Poet Laureate
Works published
- Ebenezer Cooke (attributed; also spelled "Cook"), Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C. Gent, a verse treatise on tobacco cultivation and the problems of the planters of Maryland; thought to be by the author of The Sot-Weed Factor 1708, although the two pieces differ widely in tone, English Colonial America[1] The idea for the 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth was 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]
- 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]
- James Thomson, The Seasons, a Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem, including "Autumn" (see also Winter 1726, Summer 1727, Spring 1728)[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
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 - Solomon Gessner (died 1788), Swiss painter and 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)
- Tarikonda Venkamamba (died 1817), Telugu poet (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:
See also
Notes
- Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004,, retrieved via Google Books
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
- Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 37, Franklin, Burt, 1971,, 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, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
- Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
