Letters, Familiar, Moral and Critical. In Two Volumes, including literary criticism Charles Gildon, Laws of Poetry, criticism Alexander Pennecuik, An Ancient...
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Addison and Richard Steele in London. May 23 – Robert Harley, author, statesman and friend to the "Tory wits," who has been involved in Anne, Queen of Great...
This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1721. February – Joseph A. Hall's book, A Sober Reply to Mr. Higgs' Merry Arguments...
"graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the "sublime" and uncanny, and an antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. The...
at Jena. In 1719, he was appointed professor ordinarius of rhetoric, in1721 of poetry, and in 1724 professor extraordinarius of theology. In 1728 he became...
death (c. 1721 or 1724), he was eulogized by Sìleas in the song-poem Alistair à Gleanna Garadh, which hearkens back to the mythological poetry attributed...
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Reshi wrote powerful poetry. Later came Habba Khatun (16th century) with her own style. Other major names are Rupa Bhavani (1621–1721), Paramananda (1791–1864)...
earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetryin a Germanic language. The poem, The...
nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Nicholas Rowe's widow receives a pension from King George I of Great Britain in recognition...
collapse of the South Sea Company in England, affects the fortunes of many writers, including John Gay. It features in several works of literature. There...
south of Ayr, in Alloway, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes (1721–1784), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and...
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Voltaire – La Henriade Leonard Welsted – Epistles, Odes, &c. See also 1724 inpoetry January 12 – Frances Brooke, English novelist and dramatist (died 1789)...
James Thomson's (1700–48), most famous for the nature poetry of his Seasons. Tobias Smollett (1721–71) was a poet, essayist, satirist and playwright, but...
of Asia26 February 4: Pinoy Explorer on RPTV3 February 5: Ancient Love Poetry and Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist (seasons 1 and 2) on Heart of Asia2 February...
Comédie-Française in Paris, performing first in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Electre. April 22 – At Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London, the...
Tragedy Zenon, played in 1683, was written by an anonymous Cretan playwright. Petros Katsaitis' tragedies Ifigenia (1720) and Thyestes (1721), and Savoyas Soumerlis'...
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous...
greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poetry influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions...
Margrethe Lasson – Den beklædte Sandhed (first novel in Danish) John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave...
Young An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne A Poem on the Last Day See also 1713 inpoetry January 13 – Charlotte Charke (Charlotte Cibber), English novelist, dramatist...
Johnson. January 29 – John Rich, manager of the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, mounts the first production of The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera...