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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Christopher Smart writes "Jubilate Agno" (about 1758-63), only published in 1939
Works published
United Kingdom
- Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England[1]
- John Gilbert Cooper, The Call of Aristippus[1]
- Robert Dodsley:
- Cleone: A tragedy, verse drama performed in December; the work also contains the author's poem "Melpomene", on the sublime[1]
- Collection of Poems, volumes five and six
- James Macpherson, The Highlander[1]
- Thomas Parnell, Posthumous Works[1]
English, Colonial America
- Thomas Prince, The Psalms, Hymns, & spiritual Songs of the Old and new Testaments, English, Colonial America[2]
- Annis Boudinot Stockton, "To the Honorable Colonel Peter Schuyler" published in New-York Mercury and New American Magazine; her first published poem; Colonial America[3]
Other
- Anica Bošković, Dijalog Serbian published in Venice
- Solomon Gessner, Der Tod Abels, Switzerland, German-language work akin to an idyllic pastoral
- Heyat Mahmud, Āmbiyābāṇī; Bengal, Bengali-language[4]
Oliver Goldsmith's "poetical scale"
In the January 1758 edition of the Literary Magazine, an anonymous writer widely believed to be English poet and author Oliver Goldsmith presented a table comparing 29 English poets, rating them on a scale in each of four aspects of literary greatness.[5] A score of 20 was literary perfection.[6] Some of his estimations:[5]
| Genius | Judgement | Learning | Versification | ||
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 16 | 12 | 10 | 14 | |
| Edmund Spenser | 18 | 12 | 14 | 18 | |
| William Shakespeare | 19 | 14 | 14 | 19 | |
| Ben Jonson | 16 | 18 | 17 | 8 | |
| Abraham Cowley | 17 | 17 | 15 | 17 | |
| Edmund Waller | 12 | 12 | 10 | 16 | |
| John Milton | 18 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
| John Dryden | 18 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
| Joseph Addison | 16 | 18 | 17 | 17 | |
| Matthew Prior | 16 | 16 | 15 | 17 | |
| Alexander Pope | 18 | 18 | 15 | 19 | |
Some other poets Goldsmith placed on the scale: Michael Drayton, Lee, Aaron Hill, Nicholas Rowe, Garth, Southern and Hughes. John Donne was not listed, because, wrote Goldsmith, "Dr Donne was a man of wit, but he seems to have been at pains not to pass for a poet."[7] (See also Mark Akenside's "Balance of Poets" of 1746.)
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 3
- Vasily Kapnist (died 1823), Ukrainian poet and playwright
- Valentin Vodnik (died 1819), Carniolan Slovene poet, writer and priest
- March 15 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (died 1825), Norwegian poet
- April 6 – Sir George Dallas, 1st Baronet (died 1833), English politician and poet
- April 30 – Jane West, born Iliffe, publishing under the pen names "Prudentia Homespun" and "Mrs. West" (died 1852), English novelist, poet, playwright and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts
- December – Mary Leadbeater (died 1826), Irish poet and writer
- Also:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Johann Friedrich von Cronegk (born 1731), German dramatist, poet and essayist
- January 7 – Allan Ramsay (born 1686), Scottish poet
- July 15 – Ambrosius Stub (born 1705), Danish poet
See also
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ 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 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
- ↑ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- 1 2 Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, pp 249-250, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
- ↑ Prior, James, The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: from a variety of original sources p 231, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1837, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
- ↑ John Donne: The Critical Heritage, Volume 1, p 236, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 978-0-415-13412-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
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