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Events

• Colley Cibber made British Poet Laureate

Works published

• Stephen Duck, Poems
• Aaron Hill, The Progress of Wit
• James Thomson, The Seasons, including Autumn

Births

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

• January 9 – John Scott of Amwell (died 1783), English Quaker poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
• Oliver Goldsmith

Deaths

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

• Elijah Fenton (born 1683), English poet¹
• September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate (born 1688)
• December 14 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, poet, writer (b.1659)

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

1. ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328

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

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