1757 in poetry

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

Events

 * May 7 &mdash; Christopher Smart's asylum confinement begins in St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London (it ends in January 1763); while confined at St Luke's, Smart wrote A Song to David, published in 1763, and Jubilate Agno, not published until 1939.
 * William Whitehead made British Poet Laureate after Thomas Gray refuses it
 * Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford

Colonial America
===Great Britain
 * Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Poems on Divers Subjects, includes acrostics, eulogies, epithalamiums, verse letters, scriptural paraphrases, a love poem, a quaternion, verse prayer, occasional pieces, acrostics, and prose works; one of four volumes of poetry published by English Colonial American women; Brewster had to demonstrate her authorship of the book by publicly paraphrasing a psalm into verse
 * Benjamin Church, The Choice, modeled on the English poet John Pomfret's poem of the same title; describes aristocratic aspirations of the day and favors a moral and religious way of life English Colonial America
 * Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744
 * Robert Andrews, Eidyllia; or, Miscellaneous Poems, including a preface with a vehement attack on the use of rhyme
 * Cornelius Arnold, Poems on Several Occasions
 * Samuel Boyce, Poems on Several Occasions
 * Robert Colvill, Britain, published anonymously
 * John Gilbert Cooper, writing under the pen name "Aristippus", Epistles to the Great (see also The Call of Aristippus 1758)
 * John Duncombe, The Feminead; or, Female Genius (see also The Feminead 1754 and Mary Scott's The Female Advocate 1774)
 * John Dyer, The Fleece
 * Thomas Gray, Odes by Mr. Gray, including "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard"; the first book published by Horace Walpole's press at Strawberry Hill
 * William Thompson, Poems on Several Occasions
 * William Wilkie, The Epigoniad, published anonymously
 * Edward Young, The Works of the Author of the Night Thoughts
 * Biography, criticism, scholarship
 * Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, criticism

Other languages

 * Johann Jakob Bodmer, editor, publishes portions of the Nibelunglied: "The Revenge of Kriemheld" and "The Lament Over the Heroes of Etzel", German-language works published in Switzerland

Births
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 * Dayaram (died 1852), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
 * William Blake (died 1827), English poet and artist
 * William Sotheby (died 1833), English poet and translator
 * Mary Robinson (died 1800), English poet and novelist

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Colley Cibber (born 1671), British actor-manager, playwright, and Poet Laureate
 * John Dyer, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1699 or 1700)