1718 in poetry

1718 in poetry

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Events

* Laurence Euston made British Poet Laureate

Works published

* Alexander Pope, translator, Homer's "Iliad", Book IV this year, preceded by Book I in 1715, Book II in 1716, Book III in 1717 and to be followed by Books V-VI in 1720.

Births

* November 28 - Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, poet and salonist, (d. 1763)

Deaths

*December 6 — Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (born 1674)
* Thomas Parnell

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature

Notes

* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto


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