1750 in poetry

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Events

 * Seatonian Prize founded. Christopher Smart wins for "On the Attributes of the Supreme Being"

Works published in English
===Great Britain
 * William Collins, The Passions: An ode
 * Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Moartial Virtue, published anonymously
 * Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life, published anonymously; has also been attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; published this year, although the book states "1751"
 * Mary Jones, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
 * Charlotte Lennox, The Art of Coquetry
 * James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions, posthumous
 * Thomas Warton, the younger, New-market, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1751"
 * Edward Young, The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, published anonymously; the collected edition of Nights, Books 1–9 (see The Complaint 1742)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 24 – John Trumbull, (died 1831), American
 * September 18 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa (died 1791), Spanish
 * November 7 – Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
 * Also:
 * Lady Anne Barnard (died 1825), Scottish poet and author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray
 * Sophia Burrell
 * Robert Fergusson (died 1774), Scottish poet
 * Lemuel Hopkins, (died 1801), American poet and satirist
 * John Taylor (died 1826), English businessman, poet and composer of hymns

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Aaron Hill (born 1685), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
 * Laetitia Pilkington (born 1708), Irish
 * John Winstanley
 * Hetty Wright
 * Johann Sigismund Scholze (died 1705), German