1730 in poetry

Events

• Colley Cibber made British Poet Laureate

  Works published

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• Ebenezer Cooke, Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C. Gent, a verse treatise on tobacco cultivation and the problems of the planters of Maryland; thought to be by the author of The Sot-Weed Factor 1708, although the two pieces differ widely in tone, English Colonial America The idea for the 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth was based on Barth's reading of Cooke's poem
• Richard Lewis, "A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, April 4, 1730", called one of the best nature poems in English Colonial American literature

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• John Banks, The Weaver's Miscellany
• Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Subjects
• Walter Harte, Essay on Satire, criticism in verse
• Aaron Hill, The Progress of Wit
• George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, An Epistle to Mr. Pope, published anonymously
• Matthew Pilkington, Poems on Several Occasions
• Jonathan Swift, A Libel on D---- D--------, and a Certain Great Lord, published anonymously; a satire on Patrick Delany's Epistle to His Excellency John Lord Carteret of 1729 ; see also An Epistle Upon an Epistle 1729)
• Elizabeth Thomas, The Metamorphosis of the Town; or, A View of the Present Fashions, published anonymously* "Scriblerus Tertius" a pen name, possibly of Thomas Cooke, The Candidates for the Bays
• James Thomson, The Seasons, a Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem, including "Autumn"
• "Scriblerus Tertius" a pen name, possibly of Thomas Cooke, The Candidates for the Bays
• Edward Young, Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, published anonymously

  Other

• Johann Christoph Gottsched, Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen, the first systematic treatise in German on the art of poetry from the standpoint of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  Births

• January 9 - John Scott of Amwell, English Quaker poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
• March 27 - Thomas Tyrwhitt English classical scholar and critic
• April 1 - Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and German-language poet
• June 21 - Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長, Japanese Edo period scholar of Kokugaku, physician and poet
• November 10 - Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician
• Also:
• * Charlotte Lennox, British writer and poet
• * Tarikonda Venkamamba, Telugu poet
• * year uncertain - Lucy Terry, born in Africa, enslaved at age 5, first known African American poet, author of "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad first printed in 1855

  Deaths

• July 16 - Elijah Fenton, English poet
• September 27 - Laurence Eusden, English Poet Laureate
• December 14 - Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
• unknown date:
• * Nedîm, Ottoman poet
• * Vemana, Telugu poet