Events
Works published
- Henry Carey, Namby Pamby, including fragments of many still-popular nursery rhymes, such as "London Bridge is broken down"
- John Dyer, Grongar Hill
- James Thomson, Winter
Births
- Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. 1784)
Deaths
See also
Notes
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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