1724 in poetry

• Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated • Eliza Haywood, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously, issued in Volume 4 of a set of Works, likely published together • Allan Ramsay • Editor, The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots poems, • Health • Co-author and editor, The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English, composed or amended by Ramsay and his friends, the first of four volumes, with the last volume published in 1737 • Elizabeth Tollet, Poems on Several Occasions, published anonymously • William Warburton, Miscellaneous Translations, in Prose and Verse • Leonard Welsted, Epistles, Odes &c., Written on Several Subjects ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 12 – Frances Brooke, née Moore (died 1789), English novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and translator • February 12 – William Mason (died 1797), English poet, editor and gardener • February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (died 1798), German poet • March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre (died 1812), Scottish Gaelic poet • May 18 – Magtymguly Pyragy (died c. 1807), Turkmen spiritual leader and poet • July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (died 1803), German poet • August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini (died 1770), Italian poet • August 30 – Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (died 1787), Baltic-German and Latvian poet • October 31 – Christopher Anstey (died 1805), English writer and poet • Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (died 1770), German • Frances Greville (died 1789), Irish poet • Henriette Louise von Hayn (died 1782), German • Johann Franz von Palthen (died 1804), German ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō (born 1652), Japanese painter, calligrapher and haiku poet • February 12 – Elkanah Settle (born 1648), English poet and playwright • August 15 – Manko 万乎| (birth year unknown), Japanese middle Edo period poet and wealthy merchant; apprentice of Matsuo Bashō; has poems in Sarumino, Sumidawara and Zoku-sarumino ==See also==