1724 in poetry
This article covers 1724 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
- Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated
- Eliza Haywood, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously, issued in Volume 4 of a set of Works, likely published together
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband"
- Allan Ramsay
- * Editor, The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots poems, in two volumes, the only two of the planned four volumes to be published; Scotland
- * Health
- * Co-author and editor, The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English, composed or amended by Ramsay and his friends, the first of four volumes, with the last volume published in 1737
- Elizabeth Tollet, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously
- William Warburton, Miscellaneous Translations, in Prose and Verse
- Leonard Welsted, ''Epistles, Odes &c., Written on Several Subjects''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 12 - Frances Brooke, née Moore, English novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and translator
- February 12 - William Mason, English poet, editor and gardener
- February 25 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet
- March 20 - Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Scottish Gaelic poet
- May 18 - Magtymguly Pyragy, Turkmen spiritual leader and poet
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet
- August 28 - Diamante Medaglia Faini, Italian poet
- August 30 - Agatha Lovisa de la Myle, Baltic-German and Latvian poet
- October 31 - Christopher Anstey, English writer and poet
- Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz, German
- Frances Greville, Irish poet
- Henriette Louise von Hayn, German
- Johann Franz von Palthen, German
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 7 - Hanabusa Itchō, Japanese painter, calligrapher and haiku poet
- February 12 - Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright
- August 15 - Manko 万乎|, Japanese middle Edo period poet and wealthy merchant; apprentice of Matsuo Bashō; has poems in Sarumino, Sumidawara and ''Zoku-sarumino''