1738 in poetry

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

• During a visit to Morpeth this year, poet Mark Akenside gets the idea for his long didactic poem, The Pleasures of the Imagination, published in 1744.

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

• February 9 (bapt.) – Mary Whateley (married name: Darwall) (died 1825), English poet and playwright
• May 9 – John Wolcot (died 1819), English satirist and poet
• May 27 – Moritz August von Thümmel (died 1817), German humorist and satirical author
• June 5 (bapt.) – Erika Liebman (died 1803), Swedish poet and academic
• June 16 – Johann Christoph Krauseneck (died 1799), German composer and poet
• November 8 – Barbara Catharina Mjödh (died 1776), Swedish poet
• December 4 – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (died 1809), German poet, playwright and storyteller
• Approximate date – Edward Thompson (died 1786), English Royal Navy officer and poet

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

• April – Penelope Aubin (born c. 1679), English novelist and translator
• August 2 – Ueshima Onitsura (born 1661), Japanese haiku poet
• December 19 – Philip Frowde (born c. 1679), English poet and playwright

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