1748 in poetry

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

EventsEdit

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Works published in EnglishEdit

Great BritainEdit

• Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon^[1]
• William Kenrick, The Town^[1]
• Mary Leapor, Poems upon Several Occasions (1748–51), posthumous
• Ambrose Philips, Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems^[1]
• Thomas Sheridan, The Simile; or, Woman: a Cloud, published posthumously^[1]
• James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser.,^[1] a mock-Spenserian poem; published by Andrew Millar (see also "Deaths", below)
• Thomas Warton, the elder, Poems on Several Occasions, published posthumously, edited by Joseph Warton, who also included two of his own odes^[1]

Anthologies

• Robert Dodsley, editor, first three volumes of A Collection of Poems (1748–58), Volume 2 includes Thomas Gray's "Ode [on the Spring]", "ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat" and "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (first published separately 1747)^[1]

Other languagesEdit

• Johann Jakob Bodmer, Proben der alten schwäbischen Poesie des dreyzehnten Jahrhunderts. Aus der Manessischen Sammlung, German-language anthology published in Switzerland

BirthsEdit

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 1 (disputed — see explanation here) - Gottfried August Bürger (died 1794), German poet
• June 14 – Henry Alline (died 1784), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
• October 13 – Henry Livingston, Jr. (died 1828), American farmer and poet; his family later claimed he, not Clement Moore, wrote "The Night Before Christmas"

Also

• • Ludwig Christoph Holty (died 1776), German poet and lyricist
  • Hugh Henry Brackenridge, (died 1816), American writer, poet, lawyer, judge, and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice^[2]

DeathsEdit

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• August 27 – James Thomson, 47 (born 1700), Scots poet and playwright who wrote the words to Rule Britannia
• November 25 – Isaac Watts (born 1674), English hymnist, called the "Father of English Hymnody"

Also

• • Mohammed Awzal (born 1670), Moroccan religious Berber poet
  • Antoine Danchet (born 1671), French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet
  • Christopher Pitt (born 1699), English poet and translator

See alsoEdit

• Poetry
• 18th century in poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

NotesEdit