| List of years in poetry (table) |
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| ... 1739 . 1740 . 1741 . 1742 . 1743 . 1744 . 1745 ... 1746 1747 1748 -1749- 1750 1751 1752 ... 1753 . 1754 . 1755 . 1756 . 1757 . 1758 . 1759 ... In literature: 1746 1747 1748 -1749- 1750 1751 1752 |
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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Works publishedEdit
Colonial AmericaEdit
- Joseph Dumbleton, "A Rhapsody on Rum", a popular, solemn poem by a Southern newspaper versifier describing how rum destroys a drinker; first published in the ' 'South Carolina Gazette' ' and reprinted in newspapers throughout English Colonial America[1]
Great BritainEdit
- John Brown, On Liberty[2]
- William Collins:
- Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson, James Thomson died in August 1748[2]
- "The Passions"
- Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Beauty, published anonymously[2]
- Aaron Hill, Gideon; or, The Patriot[2]
- Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated[2]
- Henry Jones, Poems on Several Occasions[2]
- William Mason, Isis: An elegy[2]
- Gilbert West, Odes of Pindar[2]
Other languagesEdit
- Ewald von Kleist, Spring; Germany[3]
BirthsEdit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
- August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832)
- Also
- James Graeme
- Ōta Nampo 大田南畝, the most oft-used pen name of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
- Samuel Jackson Pratt
- Wang Yun (died 1819), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing Dynasty
DeathsEdit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 18 — Ambrose Philips (born 1674), English poet and politician
- Also
- Matthew Concanen (born 1701), English poet and writer
- Johann Elias Schlegel (born 1719), German critic and poet
See alsoEdit
NotesEdit
- ↑ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
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