1726 in poetry

::Fondling of a happy pair, ::Every morn and every night ::Their solicitous delight Compare with Carey's lampoon of this year: ::All ye poets of the age, ::All ye witlings of the stage ... ::Namby-Pamby is your guide, ::Albion's joy, Hibernia's pride. ::Namby-Pamby, pilly-piss, ::Rhimy-pim'd on Missy Miss ::Tartaretta Tartaree ::From the navel to the knee; ::That her father's gracy grace ::Might give him a placy place. In *The Dunciad* ([1733](1733-in-poetry)), Pope would also make fun of Philips: "Beneath his reign, shall [...] Namby Pamby be prefer'd for Wit!" Pope despised Philips for both political and professional reasons, in part because Whig critics such as Joseph Addison had compared Philips' rustic verse favorably to that of Pope, a Tory. Within a generation, "Namby Pamby" began to broaden its meaning, so that in William Ayres' *Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope* of [1745](1745-in-poetry), Jonathan Swift was said to be referring to the "Namby Pamby Stile" of writing. By 1774, the meaning had broadened further, covering anything ineffectual or weak, so that *The Westmoreland Magazine* could refer to "A namby-pamby Duke". The hyphenated phrase now covers anything ineffectual or affectedly sentimental. ## Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 28 – Christian Felix Weiße (died [1804](1804-in-poetry)), German - May 1 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (died [1777](1777-in-poetry)), German writer, translator, editor and composer - August 2 – Lê Quý Đôn (died [1784](1784-in-poetry)), Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist and government official - *date unknown* – Zaharije Orfelin (died [1785](1785-in-poetry)), Serb educator, administrator, poet, engraver, lexicographer, herbalist, historian, winemaker, translator, editor, publisher, polemicist and traveler ## Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - May 20 – Nicholas Brady (born [1659](1659-in-poetry)), Anglo-Irish clergyman and poet - *date unknown:* - Aogán Ó Rathaille (born c. [1670](1670-in-poetry)), Irish poet, creator of the Aisling poem - Sonome 斯波 園女 (born [1664](1664-in-poetry)), Japanese woman poet, friend and noted correspondent of Matsuo Bashō ## Notes - [https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/](https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/) "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto ## References 1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6 2. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books 3. [link](https://web.archive.org/web/20161026175220/https://catalog.lib.ecu.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12465B956691N.6612743&profile=joyner&uri=link=3100020~!3799372~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab13&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!alsdb&term=Namby+Pamby+or%2C+a+panegyrick+on+the+new+versification+address%27d+to+A-----+P----.&index=#focus). (2016-10-26 of East Carolina University's Joyner Library website, retrieved July 2, 2009) 4. (some sources give the publication year as [[1725 in poetry. 1725]]), satirizes the poetry of [[Ambrose Philips]], with the name a play on the first three letters of "Ambrose". Carey and others, including [[John Gay]], [[Alexander Pope]] and [[Jonathan Swift]], used the term as a disparaging nickname for Philips, but this year Carey was the first to put it into print. Carey's poem, a reaction against the style of Philips' ''To the Honourable Miss Carteret'' of [[1725 in poetry 5. Web page titled [http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-nam1.htm "namby pamby"], at the ''World Wide Words'' website, retrieved July 2, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090711150641/http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-nam1.htm Archived] 2009-07-20. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1726_in_poetry) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1726_in_poetry?action=history). ::