Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- July 9 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (died 1781), German poet
- September 17 – Johann Adolf Schlegel (died 1793), German
- November 9 – Mark Akenside (died 1770), British poet
- December 25 – William Collins (died 1759), English poet
- James Grainger
- Tobias Smollett (died 1771), Scottish poet and author
- William Wilkie (died 1772), Scottish poet
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)