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1728 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Colonial America * Ebenezer Cooke (attributed), "An Elegy on . .Nicholas Lowe"Burt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books * Richard Lewis, ''Muscipula'', a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh * Jacob Taylor, "Pennsylvania", about the colony's reliance on God's favor for its abundance and fertility; the longest poem written by this renowned almanac author United Kingdom * Joseph Addison, ''The Christian Poet: A miscellany of divine poems''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Thomas Cooke, translator, ''The Works of Hesiod'' * John Dennis, ''Remarks on the Rape of the Lock'', criticism by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Pitt
Christopher Pitt (1699 – 13 April 1748) was an English clergyman poet; he was also a translator whose performance was esteemed in his day. Family connections Christopher Pitt came from a family wide-spread in the West of England. Several of them had a political career, of whom the best known was William Pitt the Elder, a descendant of Christopher’s second cousin, Thomas Pitt. Pitt himself was the second son of Dr Christopher Pitt, a respected physician at Blandford Forum. Having a Classical education himself, the father contributed a translation of the episode on the plague of Athens to Thomas Creech’s edition of Lucretius, while Robert Pitt, Christopher’s elder brother, followed his father’s medical profession, wrote on medical matters and also translated the first five books of '' Paradise Lost'' into Latin verse. There is a strong sense of family connections in Christopher Pitt’s poetical career. His first published work as an undergraduate, "A Poem on the dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1735 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Alexander Pope acknowledges authorship of ''An Essay on Man''. Works published English Colonial America * James Logan, ' 'Cato's Moral Distichs' ', a verse translation, printed by Benjamin Franklin, who calls it the first translation of a classic work both created and printed in English Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books * Jane Colman Turell (died 1735), ''Reliquiate Turellae et Lachrymae Paternal'', includes letters, diary extracts, short religious essays and pious verse (see Deaths section, below; reprinted 1741 as ''Memoirs of the Life and Death of the Pious and Ingenious Mrs. Jane Turell'') United Kingdom * Joseph Addison, translator, ''The works of Anacreon translated into En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1732 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Colonial America * Ebenezer Cooke (both attributed; also, see "Deaths" section below; also spelled "Cook"): ** "An Elegy on . .William Lock"Burt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books ** "In Memory of . .Benedict Leonard Calvert * Joseph Green, "Parody of a Psalm by Byles", a parody of Mather Byles' poetry * Richard Lewis: ** "A Description of Spring"Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ** "Carmen Saeculare" ** attributed, "A Rhapsody" United Kingdom * Anonymous, ''Castle-Howard'', has been attributed to Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin * Anonymous, ''Collection of Pieces''Clark, Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot FRS (''baptised'' 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's ''Gulliver's Travels'' book III and Alexander Pope's ''Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry'', ''Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus,'' and possibly ''The Dunciad''), and for inventing the figure of John Bull. Biography In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who commissioned and invented a biography as soon as an author died, said, "Biography is one of the new terrors of death," and so a biography of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. Alexander Pope noted to Joseph Spence that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play with, and even burn, his writings. Throughout his professional life, Arbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.. Early life Gay was born in Barnstaple, England, last of five children of William Gay (died 1695) and Katherine (died 1694), daughter of Jonathan Hanmer, "the leading Nonconformist divine of the town" as founder of the Independent Dissenting congregation in Barnstaple. The Gay family- "fairly comfortable... though far from rich"- lived in "a large house, called the Red Cross, on the corner of Joy Street". The Gay family was "of respectable antiquity" in North Devon, associated with the manor of Goldsworthy at Parkham and with the parish of Frithelstock (where the senior line remained, resident at the priory Cloister Hall with its lands, until 1823) and became "powerful and numerous" in the town, "established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish Satire, satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whig (British political party), Whigs, then for the Tories (British political party), Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean (Christianity), Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as ''A Tale of a Tub'' (1704), ''An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity'' (1712), ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726), and ''A Modest Proposal'' (1729). He is regarded by the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Satire#Classifications, Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1743 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published United Kingdom * Robert Blair, ''The Grave'' a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement * Samuel Boyse, ''Albion's Triumph'' * James Bramston, ''The Crooked Six-pence'', published anonymously, attributed to Bramston by Isaac Reed in his ''Repository'' 1777; a parody of John Philips' ''The Splendid Shilling'' 1705, and that poem's text is included in this publication * William Collins, ''Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespear's Works'', published anonymously "By a Gentleman of Oxford" * Thomas Cooke, ''An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury'' * Philip Doddridge, ''The Principles of the Christian Religion'' * Robert Dodsley, ''Pain and Patience'' * Philip Francis, translator, ''The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace'', very popular translation, published this year in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1742 In Poetry
:::::::— Edward Young, ''Night Thoughts'', "Night 1" Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Jonathan Swift suffers what appears to have been a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realizing his worst fears of becoming mentally disabled. ("I shall be like that tree," he once said, "I shall die at the top.") To protect him from unscrupulous hangers on, who had begun to prey on him, Swift's closest companions had him declared of "unsound mind and memory." Works published * William Collins, ''Persian Eclogues'', published anonymously; supposedly a translation (see also second edition, titled ''Oriental Eclogues'', 1757) * Thomas Cooke, ''Mr. Cooke's Original Poems'' * Philip Francis, translator, ''The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace'', very popular translation, published this year in Dublin (republished in 1743 in London; two more volumes, ''The Satires of Horace'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1729 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Alexander Pope begins writing ''An Essay on Man''. The first three epistles will be finished by 1731 and published in early 1733, with the fourth and final epistle published in 1734. Originally published anonymously, Pope acknowledged his authorship in 1735. Works published United Kingdom * James Bramston, ''The Art of Politicks'', published anonymouslyCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Moses Browne, ''Piscatory Eclogues'' * Henry Carey, ''Poems on Several Occasions'', third edition, extensively enlarged (first edition 1713) * Thomas Cooke, ''Tales, Epistles, Odes, Fables, &c.'', published anonymously * Soame Jenyns, ''The Art of Dancing'', published anonymously * Alexander Pope, ''The Dunciad, Variorum'' * William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, ''The Honest Jury; or, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dunciad
''The Dunciad'' is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain. Versions The first version – the "three-book" ''Dunciad'' – was published in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the ''Dunciad Variorum'', was published anonymously in 1729. The ''New Dunciad'', in a new fourth book conceived as a sequel to the previous three, appeared in 1742, and ''The Dunciad in Four Books'', a revised version of the original three books and a slightly revised version of the fourth book with revised commentary was published in 1743 with a new character, Bays, replacing Theobald as the "hero". Origins Pope told Joseph Spence (in ''Spence's Anecdotes'') that he had been working on a general satire of Dulness, with characters of contemporary Grub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1753 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time. He won it in 1750 and 1751 and will win it again in 1755. Works published * John Armstrong, ''Taste: An epistle to a young critic''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Theophilus Cibber, ''The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland'', compiled mostly by Robert Shiels with added material and revisions by Cibber (prose biography) * Thomas Cooke, ''An Ode on Benevolence'', published anonymously * Robert Dodsley, ''Public Virtue'' * Thomas Francklin, ''Translation: A poem'' * Richard Gifford, ''Contemplation: A poem'', published anonymously * Thomas Gray, "Hymn to Adversity" * Henry Jones, ''Merit: A poem'' * William Kenrick, ''The Whole Duty of Woman'', published anonymously * Heyat Mahmud, ''Hitaggyānbā ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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