Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France ).

Events [ edit ]

Works published [ edit ]

Colonial America [ edit ]

• John Armstrong , The Art of Preserving Health ^[1]
• Mather Byles , Poems on Several Occasions , 31 poems written since 1727; he wrote a range of poetic forms in formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope ^[2]
• James Logan , Cicero's Cato Major , a verse translation ^[2]
• Jane Turell, Memoirs , a collection of pious poems already published as Reliquiae Turellae together with secular verses (posthumous) ^[2]

United Kingdom [ edit ]

• Anonymous, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book , the first extant collection of nursery rhymes
• Mark Akenside :
  • The Pleasures of the Imagination , a long, didactic, enormously popular poem that remained in print through most of the century (revised 1757 ) ^[3]
  • An Epistle to Curio , published anonymously in November; "Curio" is William Pulteney , Earl of Bath ^[3]
• John Armstrong , The Art of Preserving Health ^[3]
• Jane Brereton , Poems on Several Occasions , the book states it was published this year, but it may have been published in January 1745 , according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ^[3]
• Henry Brooke , see Edward Moore, below
• Edward Moore and Henry Brooke , Fables for the Female Sex , published anonymously; Henry Brooke wrote the last three fables ^[3]
• Samuel Johnson :
  • editor, An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier , on the late poet, compiled by Johnson from Francois Baratier 's letters; published anonymously ^[3]
  • An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage , ^[3] on the late poet; ^[3] the first major biography published by Johnson; published anonymously
• Joseph Warton , Enthusiast; or, The Lover of Nature , published anonymously on March 8 ^[3]
• John Wesley and Charles Wesley , A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
• Paul Whitehead , The Gymnasiad; or, Boxing Match ^[3]

Births [ edit ]

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

• July 19 – Heinrich Christian Boie (died 1806 ), German author and poet
• August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder (died 1803 ), German philosopher, poet, and literary critic
• November 26 – Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff ( 1785 ), German
• November 30 – Karl Ludwig von Knebel (died 1834 ), German poet and translator
• Also:
  • Werner Hans Frederik Abrahamson (died 1812 ), Danish ^[4]

Deaths [ edit ]

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

• April 27 – James Miller (born 1704 ), English playwright, poet and satirist
• May 30 – Alexander Pope (born 1688 ), 56, English poet
• September 18 – Lewis Theobald (born 1688 ), English poet, playwright, translator and editor of Shakespeare

See also [ edit ]

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• Augustan poetry
• Scriblerus Club

Notes [ edit ]