1724 in poetry

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Events[]

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Works published[]

• Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated^[1]
• Eliza Haywood, Poems on several Occasions, published anonymously, issued in Volume 4 of a set of Works, likely published together^[1]
• Allan Ramsay
  • Editor, The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots poems,^[1] in two volumes, the only two of the planned four volumes to be published; Scotland^[2]
  • Health^[1]
  • Co-author and editor, The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English, composed or amended by Ramsay and his friends, the first of four volumes, with the last volume published in 1737^[2]
• Elizabeth Tollet, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously^[1]
• William Warburton, Miscellaneous Translations, in Prose and Verse^[1]
• Leonard Welsted, Epistles, Odes &c., Written on Several Subjects^[1]

Births[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 12 – Frances Brooke, née Moore (died 1789), English novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and translator
• February 12 – William Mason (died 1797), English poet, editor and gardener
• February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (died 1798), German poet
• March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre (died 1812), Scottish Gaelic poet
• May 18 – Magtymguly Pyragy (died c. 1807), Turkmen spiritual leader and poet
• July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (died 1803), German poet^[3]
• August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini (died 1770), Italian poet
• August 30 – Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (died 1787), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
• October 31 – Christopher Anstey (died 1805), English writer and poet
• (died 1770), German
• Frances Greville (died 1789), Irish poet
• (died 1782), German
• (died 1804), German

Deaths[]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō (born 1652), Japanese painter, calligrapher and haiku poet
• February 12 – Elkanah Settle (born 1648), English poet and playwright
• August 15 – Manko 万乎| (birth year unknown), Japanese middle Edo period poet and wealthy merchant; apprentice of Matsuo Bashō; has poems in Sarumino, Sumidawara and

See also[]

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes[]

• [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto