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1734 in poetry

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United Kingdom

  • Anonymous, A Rap at the Rhapsody (a response to Jonathan Swift's On Poetry 1733)
  • Jean Adam, Miscellany Poems
  • John Arbuthnot and others, Gnothi Seauton: Know Yourself, published anonymously
  • Mary Barber, Poems on Several Occasions
  • Isaac Hawkins Browne, the elder, On Design and Beauty, published anonymously
  • Robert Dodsley, An Epistle to Mr. Pope
  • Stephen Duck, Truth and Falsehood
  • William Dunkin:
  • The Lover's Web
  • The Poet's Prayer
  • Richard Lewis (poet), Upon Prince Madoc's Expedition to the Country now called America, in the 12th Century, a fictional, poetic tale of a Welshman; English Colonial America
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room, published anonymously (see Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing-Room 1732)
  • Alexander Pope:
  • An Epistle to Lord Cobham, published this year, although the book states "1733"
  • An Essay on Man, fourth and final epistle (Epistles 1–3 published 1733; all four epistles also published together this year), published anonymously
  • The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace including the Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace, which was published separately this year (preceded by First Satire of Horace 1733)
  • Sober Advice From Horace, published anonymously, parallel texts in English and Latin
  • James Thomson, Liberty, dedicated to the Prince of Wales
  • Jonathan Swift, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, published anonymously
  • Robert Tatersal, The Bricklayer's Miscellany; or, Poems on Several Subjects
  • Joseph Trapp, Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things, published anonymously, in four parts (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell), starting this year and ending in 1735
  • Other

  • Jean-Baptiste Gresset, Vert-Vert, (some sources give the year of publication as 1733) France
  • Births

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

  • July 15 – Evan Lloyd (died 1776), Welsh satirical poet
  • July 25 – Ueda Akinari, 上田 秋成, also known as "Ueda Shūsei" (died 1809), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet (surname: Udea)
  • September 29 – William Julius Mickle (died 1788), Scottish poet
  • December 15 – John Maclaurin (died 1796), Scottish judge and poet
  • Also – Hedvig Sirenia (died 1795), Swedish woman poet and translator (died 1795)
  • Deaths

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

  • February 28 (or 1733) – John Morgan (born 1688), Welsh-born clergyman, scholar and poet
  • Edward Littleton, English clergyman and poet
  • References

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