1738 in poetry explained

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.

Works published

United Kingdom

• Mark Akenside, A British Philippic, published anonymously^[1]
• John Banks, Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose^[1]
• Mather Byles, On the Death of the Queen, English, Colonial America^[2]
• Elizabeth Carter, Poems Upon Particular Occasions, published anonymously^[1]
• Robert Dodsley, The Art of Preaching, published anonymously^[1]
• John Gay, Fables: Volume the Second (see also Fables 1727)^[1]
• Samuel Johnson, London, A Poem, on the Third Satire of Juvenal^[1]
• Alexander Pope:
  • The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
  • The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated^[1]
  • One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight^[1]
  • One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II^[1]
  • The Universal Prayer^[1]
  • (see also Pope and Swift, below)
• Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (later Duchess of Somerset), writing as "The Right Hon. the Countess of ****", The Story of Inkle and Yarrico, includes "An Epistle From Yarrico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery", an imitation of Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard", a part of his Works 1717)^[1]
• Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Pope's contribution was anonymous; Part 1, by Swift, had previously appeared in Miscellanies, "The Last Volume" (that is, Volume 3) 1727^[1]
• Jonathan Swift (see also Pope and Swift above), "The Beasts' Confession"^[1]
  • and Alexander Pope, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace^[1]
• James Thomson, The Works of Mr. Thomson^[1]
• John Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (first published in Charlestown 1737, see also A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1741)^[1]

Other

• Johann Jakob Bodmer, Critical Disquisition on the Wonderful in Poetry, a defense of John Milton; German-language, Switzerland^[3]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 9 (bapt.)  - Mary Whateley (married name: Darwall) (died 1825), English poet and playwright
• May 9  - John Wolcot (died 1819), English satirist and poet
• May 27  - Moritz August von Thümmel (died 1817), German humorist and satirical author
• June 5 (bapt.)  - Erika Liebman (died 1803), Swedish poet and academic
• June 16  - Johann Christoph Krauseneck (died 1799), German composer and poet
• November 8  - Barbara Catharina Mjödh (died 1776), Swedish poet
• December 4  - Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (died 1809), German poet, playwright and storyteller
• Approximate date  - Edward Thompson (died 1786), English Royal Navy officer and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April  - Penelope Aubin (born c. 1679), English novelist and translator
• August 2  - Ueshima Onitsura (born 1661), Japanese haiku poet
• December 19  - Philip Frowde (born c. 1679), English poet and playwright

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

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602 - 1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009

• http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto