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| 1712 |
| | | Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | |
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| 1762 |
| | | Fingal, supposedly by the medieval poet Ossian, is a forgery in the spirit of the times by James MacPherson | |
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| 1778 |
| | | Francis Hopkinson's popular ballad The Battle of the Kegs describes an ingenious American threat to the British navy | |
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| 1781 |
| | | US poet Philip Freneau describes in The British Prison Ship the horrors of his experiences as a prisoner | |
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| 1786 |
| | | US author Philip Freneau publishes his first collection of poems, dating back to 1771 | |
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| 1789 |
| | | William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with every page etched and illustrated by himself | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes Tam o' Shanter, in which a drunken farmer has an alarming encounter with witches | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism | |
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| 1794 |
| | | William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright' | |
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