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

Events

• Nicholas Rowe made British Poet Laureate

Works published

• Alexander Pope, translator of Homer's Iliad, Book I, followed by Books II in 1716, III in 1717, IV in 1718, and V-VI in 1720.
• Matthew Prior, Solomon, or The Vanity of the World, a didactic poem^[1]
• Isaac Watts, Divine Songs for the Use of Children, including "How doth the little busy Bee"

Births

• March 7 — Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (died 1759)
• July 4 — Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (died 1769)
• John Brown
• Richard Jago
• Richard Graves
• William Whitehead

Deaths

• July 30 — Nahum Tate, Irish poet (born 1652)
• Mary Monck

See also

Poetry portal

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

Notes

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

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