1727 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1727 in poetry
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Events

Works published

Alexander Pope, circa 1727
  • Anonymous, Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels, often attributed to Alexander Pope, but perhaps composed by Pope as well as John Gay and John Arbuthnot[1]
  • Henry Baker, The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
  • Elizabeth Boyd, writing under the pen name, "Louisa", Variety[1]
  • Mather Byles, "A Poem on the Death of His Late Majesty King George, of Glorious Memory, and the Accession of Our Present Sovereign, King George II, to the British Throne",[2] the author's first published poem, he wrote formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope;[3] Colonial America
  • John Dyer, Grongar Hill, Dyer's first published work originally appeared in Richard Savage's Miscellany in 1726, written in Pindaric style; this year Dyer rewrote it as a 150-line piece in four-stress octosyllabics and had it printed, after which it received much acclaim
  • John Gay, Fables, I, to be followed by II in 1738, but completed only in 1750
  • Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, two volumes published this year, an anthology including prose and verse by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and John Arbuthnot (Last Volume 1728 [although that edition states "1727"], The Third Volume [actually the fourth] 1732, Volume the Fifth 1735 with no content by Pope)[1]
  • Christopher Pitt, Poems and Translations[1]
  • James Ralph, The Tempest; or, The Terror of Death[1]
  • Alexander Pope:
  • James Thomson:
    • A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (who died March 20 of this year)[1]
    • Summer (see also Winter 1726, Spring 1728, The Seasons 1730)[1]
  • John Wright, Spiritual Songs for Children[1]

Births

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Deaths

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See also

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
  • [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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