1719 in poetry

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Events

Nicholas Rowe's widow receives a pension from King George I of Great Britain in recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia, published complete posthumously this year with a life of Rowe by James Welwood.

Joseph Addison:
* The Old Whig. Numb. I, published anonymously on March 19
* The Old Whig. Numb. II, published anonymously on April 2
John Durant Breval:
* Mac-Dermot; or, The Irish Fortune-Hunter
* Ovid in Masquerade, published under the pen name "Mr. Joseph Gay"
Thomas D'Urfey, Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive, in five volumes, the first two consisting of verse written by D'Urfey, a revised edition of Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, which had been published since 1598; after the book sold out this year, it went into a second edition under the original title ; although the pieces were meant to be sung, only the words were provided
Giles Jacob, The Poetical Register; or, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, With an Account of their Writings, biography and criticism
Allan Ramsay:
* Content
* Scots Songs
Nicholas Rowe, Lucan's Pharsalia, Translated into English Verse, dated "1718"
George Sewell, Poems on Several Occasions
Isaac Watts, Psalms of David
Edward Young, A Letter to Mr. Tickell, on the death of Joseph Addison

Jean-Baptiste, abbé Du Bos, Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et la pienture, identifying the appeal of art, whether poetry or painting, as emotional rather than primarily intellectual enjoyment; criticism, France
Ludvig Holberg, Pedar Paars, comic Danish heroic poem

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