1728 in poetry

Events

Works published

Colonial America">American poetry">Colonial America

• Ebenezer Cooke, "An Elegy on Nicholas Lowe"
• 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">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Joseph Addison, The Christian Poet: A miscellany of divine poems
• Thomas Cooke, translator, The Works of Hesiod
• 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
• Henry Fielding, The Masquerade, published under the pen name "By Lemuel Gulliver, Poet Laureat to the King of Lilliput
• David Mallet, The Excursion
• Christopher Pitt, translator, An Essay on Virgil's Aenid, from the Latin of Virgil
• Alexander Pope:
• *The Dunciad: An heroic poem, Books I-III, published anonymously
• *Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Volume 3, Last Volume, an anthology including prose and verse by Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and John Arbuthnot included in this volume, Peri Bathous, Martin Scriblerus, his treatise on the art of sinking in poetry
• James Ralph:
• * Night
• * Sawney: An heroic poem. Occasion'd by the Dunciad, published anonymously; addressed to John Toland, James Moore Smith, and Lawrence Eusden
• * Zeuma; or, The Love of Liberty, published this year, although the book states "1729"
• Allan Ramsay, Poems by Allan Ramsay
• Richard Savage, The Bastard
• George Sewell, Posthumous Works of Dr. George Sewell
• Thomas Sheridan, translator, The Satyrs of Persius, presented in Latin and English translation
• James Thomson, Spring
• Edward Ward, Durgen; or, A Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist , published anonymously this year, although the book states "1729"
• William Wycherley, The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, edited by Lewis Theobald
• Edward Young
• * Love of Fame, the Universal Passion
• * Ocean: An Ode''

  Other

• Mwengo, Utendi wa Tambuka, Swahili
• Voltaire, La Henriade, France

  Births

• Early - Lady Dorothea Du Bois, née Annesley, Irish writer
• January 9 - Thomas Warton, English Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of Great Britain
• November 10 - Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer and poet
• Jagannatha Dasa, Indian devotional poet

  Deaths

• January 28 - Esther Johnson known as "Stella", English inspiration of Jonathan Swift. 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".
• March 8 - Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, Italian critic and poet
• September - Richardson Pack, English soldier and poet
• October 15 - Bernard de la Monnoye, French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic
• Heinrich Theobald Schenk, American hymn writer and pastor