Colouring, Versification, Moral, and Final Estimate. Boileau's "Final Estimate" rating is 12, the same as Euripides and Tasso, better than Lucretius and Terence (who both get 10), Ariosto, Dante, Horace, Pindar, Alexander Pope, Racine and Sophocles each get 13. "Perhaps neither of these curiosities of criticism is to be taken very seriously", wrote Alexander Clark, an early 20th-century literary historian. (See also, Oliver Goldsmith's "poetical scale" of 1758.) Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 16 – Wilhelm Heinse (died 1803), German author and poet March 27 – Michael Bruce (died 1767), Scottish poet and hymnist June 5 (bapt.) – Elizabeth Hands (died 1815), English servingmaid poet September 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (died 1797), German poet and dramatist September 13 – Ernst Theodor Johann Brückner (died 1805), German theologian and writer Undated – Isachar Falkensohn Behr (died 1817), Lithuanian-born German-Jewish poet and physician Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – Edward Chicken (born 1698), English Geordie poet and teacher February 4 – Robert Blair (born 1699), Scottish member of the "Graveyard poets" November 12 – Mary Leapor (born 1722), English kitchenmaid poet, from measles December 6 – Lady Grizel Baillie (born 1665), Scottish poet See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature Notes 18th-century poetry Poetry