1752 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 third time (he won the same prize in 1750 and 1751, and he will win it again in 1753 and 1755).

Great Britain

 * Moses Browne, The Works and Rest of the Creation
 * John Byrom, Enthusiasm: A poetical essay
 * Richard Owen Cambridge, A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament and His Servant
 * Thomas Cooke, Pythagoras: An ode, published anonymously
 * Samuel Davies, Miscellaneous Poems, Chiefly on Divine Subjects, previously published in the Virginia Gazette; English Colonial America
 * William Mason, Elfrida: A dramatic poem
 * Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions (Some criticism of the work by Sir John Hill (1716-1775) later caused Smart to write The Hilliad, a satire on Hill in 1753)
 * James Sterling, An Epistle to the Hon. Arthur Dobbs, a verse epistle addressed to a projector who sought the Northwest Passage; the neoclassical-style poem asserts that Britain's future will depend on America; English Colonial America

Other languages

 * Christoph Martin Wieland, Germany:
 * Spring
 * Moral Letters in Verse, 12 letters
 * Art of Love

Births
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 * January 2 – Philip Freneau, American poet, called the "poet of the American Revolution" (died 1832)
 * May 14 – Timothy Dwight IV (died 1817), American academic and educator, eighth president of Yale College, Congregationalist minister, theologian, author and poet
 * July 10 – St. George Tucker, (died 1827), American lawyer and professor of law at the College of William and Mary
 * November 20 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger (died 1770)
 * Also:
 * Ann Eliza Bleecker, (died 1783), American poet and correspondent
 * Edmund Gardner
 * Joseph Ritson (died 1803), English writer

Deaths
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 * Shah Abdul Latif Bhita'i (born 1689), Sufi scholar and saint, poet of the Sindhi language
 * Christian Falster (born 1690), Danish poet and philologist