1754 in poetry

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

Great Britain

 * Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously
 * Thomas Denton, Immortality; or, The Consolation of Human Life, published anonymously
 * John Duncombe, The Feminead: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year (a second edition came out in 1757). The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write.
 * Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy
 * Henry Jones, The Relief; or, Day Thoughts, occasioned by Edward Young's The Complaint 1742
 * Jonathan Swift, The Works of Jonathan Swift, published posthumously; edited by John Hawkesworth; five more volumes were published from 1764 through 1765 and six volumes of letters from 1766 through 1768
 * Thomas Warton the younger, Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, criticism
 * William Whitehead, Poems on Several Occasions

Colonial America

 * John Mercer, The Dinwiddianae Poems and Prose, begins on November 4 (continues until 1757),;a satiric series using puns, mock-heroics and inviective attacking the policies of Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie and General Edward Braddock; English Colonial America
 * William Shirley, The Antigonian and Bostonian Beauties: A Poem, English, Colonial America

Other languages

 * Solomon Gessner, Daphnis, Switzerland, German-language

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 11 – Juan Meléndez Valdés (died 1817), Spanish
 * March 24 – Joel Barlow (died 1812), American poet and diplomat
 * June 18 – Anna Maria Lenngren (died 1817), Swedish
 * August 27 – John Codrington Bampfylde (died 1796), English
 * December 24 – George Crabbe (died 1832), English
 * Also:
 * William Drennan (died 1820), Northern Irish
 * Thomas Maurice (died 1824), English poet and clergyman

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Friedrich von Hagedorn (born 1708), German
 * William Hamilton (born 1704), Scottish poet
 * January 28 – Ludvig Holberg (born 1684), Danish/Norwegian poet and playwright
 * Elizabeth Tollet