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Events
Jonathan Swift revisits England this year and stays with his friend Alexander Pope until the visit is cut short when Swift gets word that Esther Johnson is dying. He rushes back. She survives until January 28, 1728.
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[1]
Henry Baker, The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man
Elizabeth Boyd, writing under the pen name, "Louisa", Variety[1]
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",[2] the author's first published poem, he wrote formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope;[3]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 it as a 150-line piece in four-stress octosyllabics 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 Volume1728 [although that edition states "1727"], The Third Volume [actually the fourth] 1732, Volume the Fifth1735 with no content by Pope)[1]