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

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Works published in English[]

Leapor-Poems

Title page of Mary Leapor's Poems

James Thomson (Scottish poet)

James Thomson, who published and died this year

Great Britain[]

  • 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 languages[]

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

Births[]

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

Also

Deaths[]

File:Isaac Watts DD tomb in Bunhill Fields.jpg

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"
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 also[]

Notes[]

  1. 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
  2. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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