1738 in poetry

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Samuel Johnson's London proved popular enough for a second edition in the same year as the first

## Events

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* During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.

## Works published

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* Mark Akenside, A British Philippic, published anonymously[1]
* John Banks, Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose[1]
* Mather Byles, On the Death of the Queen, English, Colonial America[2]
* Elizabeth Carter, Poems Upon Particular Occasions, published anonymously[1]
* Robert Dodsley, The Art of Preaching, published anonymously[1]
* John Gay, Fables: Volume the Second (see also Fables 1727)[1]
* Samuel Johnson, London, A Poem, on the Third Satire of Juvenal[1]
* Alexander Pope:
* The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated[1]
* The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated[1]
* One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight[1]
* One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II[1]
* The Universal Prayer[1]
* (see also Pope and Swift, below)
* Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (later Duchess of Somerset), writing as "The Right Hon. the Countess of ****", The Story of Inkle and Yarrico, includes "An Epistle From Yarrico to Inkle, after he had left her in slavery", an imitation of Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard", a part of his Works 1717)[1]
* Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Pope's contribution was anonymous; Part 1, by Swift, had previously appeared in Miscellanies, "The Last Volume" (that is, Volume 3) 1727[1]
* Jonathan Swift (see also Pope and Swift above), "The Beasts' Confession"[1]
* and Alexander Pope, An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace[1]
* James Thomson, The Works of Mr. Thomson[1]
* John Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (first published in Charlestown 1737, see also A Collection of Psalms and Hymns 1741)[1]

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* Johann Jakob Bodmer, Critical Disquisition on the Wonderful in Poetry, a defense of John Milton; German-language, Switzerland[3]

## Births

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* February 9 (bapt.) - Mary Whateley (married name: Darwall) (died 1825), English poet and playwright
* May 9 - John Wolcot (died 1819), English satirist and poet
* May 27 - Moritz August von Thümmel (died 1817), German humorist and satirical author
* June 5 (bapt.) - Erika Liebman (died 1803), Swedish poet and academic
* June 16 - Johann Christoph Krauseneck (died 1799), German composer and poet
* November 8 - Barbara Catharina Mjödh (died 1776), Swedish poet
* December 4 - Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (died 1809), German poet, playwright and storyteller
* Approximate date - Edward Thompson (died 1786), English Royal Navy officer and poet

## Deaths

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

* April - Penelope Aubin (born c. 1679), English novelist and translator
* August 2 - Ueshima Onitsura (born 1661), Japanese haiku poet
* December 19 - Philip Frowde (born c. 1679), English poet and playwright

## See also

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* Poetry portal

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* 18th century in poetry
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* Augustan poetry
* Scriblerus Club

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602-1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. ^ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009

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

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