1730 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 9 – John Scott of Amwell (died 1783), English Quaker poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
• March 27 – Thomas Tyrwhitt (died 1786) English classical scholar and critic
• April 1 – Solomon Gessner (died 1788), Swiss painter and German-language poet
• June 21 – Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 (died 1801), Japanese Edo period scholar of Kokugaku, physician and poet (surname: Motoori)
• November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith (died 1774), Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician

• Also:
  • Charlotte Lennox (died 1804), British writer and poet (born in Gibraltar to Scottish and Irish parents)
  • year uncertain – Lucy Terry (died 1821), 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