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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 Notes

Events

• January to July — The Scriblerus Club meets. The group includes John Gay, Thomas Parnell, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift.

Works published

• John Gay:
  • The Shepherd's Week (pastoral)^[1]
  • The Fan

Births

• January 1 — Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (died 1780)
• November 13 — William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)

Deaths

• Paul Whitehead

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

1. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 326

• [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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