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

Events

Works published

• Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated^[1]
• Eliza Haywood, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously, issued in Volume 4 of a set of Works, likely published together^[1]
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband"^[2]
• Allan Ramsay
  • Editor, The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots poems,^[1] in two volumes, the only two of the planned four volumes to be published; Scotland^[3]
  • Health^[1]
  • 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^[3]
• Elizabeth Tollet, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously^[1]
• William Warburton, Miscellaneous Translations, in Prose and Verse^[1]
• Leonard Welsted, Epistles, Odes &c., Written on Several Subjects^[1]

Births

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

• January 12 – Frances Brooke, née Moore (died 1789), English novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and translator
• February 12 – William Mason (died 1797), English poet, editor and gardener
• February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (died 1798), German poet
• March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre (died 1812), Scottish Gaelic poet
• May 18 – Magtymguly Pyragy (died c. 1807), Turkmen spiritual leader and poet
• July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (died 1803), German poet^[4]
• August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini (died 1770), Italian poet
• August 30 – Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (died 1787), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
• October 31 – Christopher Anstey (died 1805), English writer and poet
• Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (died 1770), German
• Frances Greville (died 1789), Irish poet
• Henriette Louise von Hayn (died 1782), German
• Johann Franz von Palthen (died 1804), German

Deaths

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

• February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō (born 1652), Japanese painter, calligrapher and haiku poet
• February 12 – Elkanah Settle (born 1648), English poet and playwright
• August 15 – Manko 万乎| (birth year unknown), Japanese middle Edo period poet and wealthy merchant; apprentice of Matsuo Bashō; has poems in Sarumino, Sumidawara and Zoku-sarumino