| List of years in poetry (table) |
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[]
- May 7 — Christopher Smart's asylum confinement begins in St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London (it ends in January 1763); while confined at St Luke's, Smart wrote A Song to David, published in 1763, and Jubilate Agno, not published until 1939.
- William Whitehead appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain after Thomas Gray refuses it
- Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford
Works published in English[]
Colonial America[]
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Poems on Divers Subjects, includes acrostics, eulogies, epithalamiums, verse letters, scriptural paraphrases, a love poem, a quaternion, verse prayer, occasional pieces,[1] acrostics, and prose works; one of four volumes of poetry published by English Colonial American women; Brewster had to demonstrate her authorship of the book by publicly paraphrasing a psalm into verse[2]
- Benjamin Church, The Choice, modeled on the English poet John Pomfret's poem of the same title; describes aristocratic aspirations of the day and favors a moral and religious way of life English Colonial America[2]
Great Britain[]
- Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744
- Robert Andrews, Eidyllia; or, Miscellaneous Poems, including a preface with a vehement attack on the use of rhyme[3]
- Cornelius Arnold, Poems on Several Occasions[3]
- Samuel Boyce, Poems on Several Occasions[3]
- Robert Colvill, Britain, published anonymously[3]
- John Gilbert Cooper, writing under the pen name "Aristippus", Epistles to the Great (see also The Call of Aristippus 1758)[3]
- John Duncombe, The Feminead; or, Female Genius (see also The Feminead 1754 and Mary Scott's The Female Advocate 1774)[3]
- John Dyer, The Fleece[3]
- Thomas Gray, Odes by Mr. Gray, including "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard"; the first book published by Horace Walpole's press at Strawberry Hill[3]
- William Thompson, Poems on Several Occasions[3]
- William Wilkie, The Epigoniad, published anonymously[3]
- Edward Young, The Works of the Author of the Night Thoughts[3]
- Biography, criticism, scholarship
- Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, criticism
Other languages[]
- Johann Jakob Bodmer, editor, publishes portions of the Nibelunglied: "The Revenge of Kriemheld" and "The Lament Over the Heroes of Etzel",[4] German-language works published in Switzerland
Births[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Dayaram (died 1852), Indian, Gujarati-language poet[5]
- William Blake (died 1827), English poet and artist
- William Sotheby (died 1833), English poet and translator
- Mary Robinson (died 1800), English poet and novelist
Deaths[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Colley Cibber (born 1671), British actor-manager, playwright, and Poet Laureate
- John Dyer, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1699 or 1700)
See also[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Google Books online version of Gayley, Charles Mills, The Classic Myths in English Literature and Art, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0-8196-0320-1 Retrieved March 22, 2008
- ↑ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
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