1720 in poetry
This article covers 1720 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
[Great Britain]
- Jane Brereton, An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison, published anonymously
- Jonathan Burt, A Lamentation Occasion'd by the Great Sickness & Lamented Deaths of Divers Eminent Persons in Springfield, a jeremiad composed in hymnal meter, describing the benefits of living righteously and calling a recent deadly epidemic evidence of God's displeasure, English Colonial America
- Samuel Croxall, The Fair Circassian, verse adaptation of the Song of Songs
- John Gay, Poems on Several Occasions
- Anthony Hammond, A New Miscellany of Original Poems, Translations and Imitations, also known as Hammonds Miscellany, including work by Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Bevil Higgons and Nicholas Amhurst, as well as letters by John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
- Aaron Hill, The Creation
- Giles Jacob, An Historical Account of the Lives and Writings of Our most Considerable English Poets, whether Epick, Lyrick, Elegaick, Eppigrammatists, Etc., biography and criticism; both volumes reissued in 1723
- Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, the book states "1718", but it was not ready for subscribers until March of this year
- Alexander Pope, translator, Homer's Iliad Books V–VI,
- Allan Ramsay, Poems
- George Sewell, A New Collection of Original Poems
- Edward Ward, ''The Delights of the Bottle; or, The Compleat Vintner''
Other
- Ludvig Holberg, Peder Paars, a verse, mock-epic, Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January; Charlotta Löfgren, Swedish poet
- October 3 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet
- December 14 – Justus Möser, German jurist, social theorist and poet
- Francis Fawkes, English poet and translator
- James Merrick, English poet and scholar
- Jeanne-Catherine Van Goethem Flemish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 1 – Francis Daniel Pastorius, English Colonial American Quaker settler, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania and poet
- June 27 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and wit
- August 5 – Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea, English poetdate unknown
- * Abdul-Qādir Bēdil, Persian poet and Sufi
- * Shalom Shabazi, Jewish poet of Yemen