1748 in poetry

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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]

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]

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

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"

- 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]

Watt' tomb in Bunhill Fields

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"

- 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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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