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[1]
John Dennis, Remarks on the Rape of the Lock, criticism by an enemy of
Alexander Pope; the critic compares the poem unfavorably with
Boileau's Le Lutrin, an early example of comparative criticism[3]
Henry Fielding, The Masquerade, published under the
pen name "By Lemuel Gulliver, Poet Laureat to the King of Lilliput"[2]
The Dunciad: An heroic poem, Books I-III, published anonymously (expanded in
1729; followed by Book IV [The New Dunciad] in
1742, and completed in
1743)[2]
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Volume 3, Last Volume, an anthology including prose and verse by Pope,
Jonathan Swift,
John Gay and
John Arbuthnot (published this year, although the book states "1727"; The Third Volume [actually the fourth]
1732, Volume the Fifth1735 with no content by Pope)[2] included in this volume, Peri Bathous, Martin Scriblerus, his treatise on the art of sinking in poetry[4]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 28 –
Esther Johnson known as "Stella",
English inspiration of
Jonathan Swift (born
1681). Swift, who rushed back from England last year when he was told she was deathly ill, could not keep himself at her bedside when she died. Nor does he attend her funeral. Many years later, a lock of hair, assumed to be hers, was found in his desk, wrapped in a paper bearing the words, "Only a woman's hair".
^Paul, Harry Gilbert,
John Dennis: His Life and Criticism, p 94, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
^
abGrun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History. 3rd edition (original book, 1946) p. 328.
[1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto