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

Events

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]

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

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine E., eds. (2009). British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 171.
^ ^a ^b "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)". The Burns Encyclopedia (Online ed.). 2009-07-21. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328.

[1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto