1727 in Poetry - Works Published

Works Published

• Anonymous, Several Copies of Verses on Occasion of Mr. Gulliver's Travels, often attributed to Alexander Pope, but perhaps composed by Pope as well as John Gay and John Arbuthnot
• Henry Baker, The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
• Elizabeth Boyd, writing under the pen name, "Louisa", Variety
• Mather Byles, "A Poem on the Death of His Late Majesty King George, of Glorious Memory, and the Accession of Our Present Sovereign, King George II, to the British Throne", the author's first published poem, he wrote formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope; Colonial America
• John Dyer, Grongar Hill, Dyer's first published work originally appeared in Richard Savage's Miscellany in 1726, written in Pindaric style; this year Dyer rewrote the 150-line piece in a loose measure of four cadences and had it printed, after which it received much acclaim
• John Gay, Fables, I, to be followed by II in 1738, but completed only in 1750
• Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, two volumes published this year, an anthology including prose and verse by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and John Arbuthnot (Last Volume 1728, The Third Volume 1732, Volume the Fifth 1735 with no content by Pope)
• Christopher Pitt, Poems and Translations
• James Ralph, The Tempest; or, The Terror of Death
• Alexander Pope:
  • Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, a parody of Longinus's treatise on the sublime
  • (see also Several Copies by Anonymous, above)
• James Thomson:
  • A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (who died March 20 of this year)
  • Summer (see also Winter 1726, Spring 1728, The Seasons 1730)
• John Wright, Spiritual Songs for Children