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1716 in poetry

Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission.


1771 in poetry

July 30 – Thomas Gray (born 1716), English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous 1750 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard


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