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- Joseph Addison, The Works of Joseph Addison, edited by Thomas Tickell[1]
- John Dennis, Original Letters, Familiar, Moral and Critical. In Two Volumes, including literary criticism[2]
- Charles Gildon, Laws of Poetry, criticism[3]
- Alexander Pennecuik, An Ancient Prophecy Concerning Stock-Jobbing, and the Conduct of the Directors of the South-Sea-Company[1]
- Thomas Parnell, Night-Piece on Death a notable work by one of the Graveyard poets
- Matthew Prior, Colin's Mistakes, published anonymously[1] (died this year)
- Allan Ramsay, Poems[4]
- Jonathan Swift:
- The Bubble[1]
- Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1722" (see also Joseph Addison, above)
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 17 – James Dance, pseudonym of James Dance (died 1774), English poet, playwright, actor and cricketer
- March 19 – Tobias Smollett (died 1771), Scottish-born physician, novelist and poet
- July 9 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (died 1781), German poet
- August 21 – Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken (died 1789), Dutch poet and playwright
- September 17 – Johann Adolf Schlegel (died 1793), German poet
- October 5 – William Wilkie (died 1772), Scottish poet and agriculturalist
- November 9 – Mark Akenside (died 1770), English poet
- December 25 – William Collins (died 1759), English poet
- date not known
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 178, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
- "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto