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Poetry
- Mark Akenside (anonymously) – A British Philippic
- Elizabeth Carter (anonymously) – Poems Upon Particular Occasions
- John Gay – Fables: Volume the Second
- Eugenio Gerardo Lobo – Obras poéticas líricas
- Samuel Johnson – London, A Poem, on the Third Satire of Juvenal
- Alexander Pope
- The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
- The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
- (with Jonathan Swift) An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight
- The Universal Prayer
- One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II
- James Thomson – The Works of Mr Thomson
- Diego de Torres Villarroel – Juguetes de Talia, entretenimiento del numen
- John Wesley – A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (first English edition)
- February 9 (baptized) – Mary Whateley, English poet and playwright (died 1825)
- May 9 – John Wolcot, English satirist and poet (died 1819)
- May 12 – Jonathan Boucher, English philologist (died 1804)
- May 27 – Moritz August von Thümmel, German humorist and satirical author (died 1817)
- June 21 – Gottlieb Christoph Harless, German bibliographer (died 1815)
- July 24 – Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (died 1804)
- November 15 – Joseph Johnson, English publisher (died 1809)
- December 4 – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann, German poet, playwright and storyteller (died 1809)[5]
- unknown date – Manuel Lassala, Spanish dramatist and philosopher (died 1806)