1755 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the fifth time (he won the same prize in 1750; 1751 1752, and 1753
 * Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.

Works published in English
===[[American poetry|Colonial America
 * Mather Byles, ' 'The Conflagration' ', a long poem in heroic couplets detailing the physical phenomena of Judgment Day, English Colonial America

Great Britain

 * John Byrom, Epistle in Defence of Rhyme, published in Roger Comberbach's A Dispute; also published in 1755 under the title The Contest
 * George Colman, the elder, and Bonnell Thornton, editors, Poems by Eminent Ladies, an anthology with verse by 18 women poets, including Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Leapor, Anne Finch, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Mary Monck, Lady Mary Chudleigh and Mary Barber
 * John Gilbert Cooper, The Tomb of Shakespear (see also the second edition, "corrected; with considerable alterations" and subtitled "A vision" 1755)
 * Robert Dodsley, fourth volume of Collection of Poems
 * Stephen Duck, Caesar's Camp; or, St. George's Hill

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Philibert Louis Debucourt (died 1832), French poet
 * George Dyer (died 1841), English classicist and a prolific writer
 * George Galloway (poet)
 * Elizabeth Lebrun (died 1842), French poet
 * Robert Merry
 * Andrew Macdonald (died 1790), Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Mary Barber (born 1685), poet, and a member of Jonathan Swift's circle