List of years in poetry (table) |
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Events[]
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Works published in English[]

Title page of Mary Leapor's Poems

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:
- 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
Deaths[]
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[]
- ↑ 1.0 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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