1760 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1750 . 1751 . 1752 . 1753 . 1754 . 1755 . 1756 ...; 1757 1758 1759 -1760- 1761 1762 1763; ... 1764 . 1765 . 1766 . 1767 . 1768 . 1769 . 1770 ... In literature: 1757 1758 1759 -1760- 1761 1762 1763
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

With the death of King George II, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702, is now considered to have ended.

Jupiter Hammon, An Evening Thought, the first poem published by an African American in English Colonial America (several years earlier, Phillis Wheatley had published her poems, but in England); printed as a broadside; the poem's meter was common in Great Awakening sermons and African American a cappella hymns^[1]

James Beattie, Original Poems and Translations^[2]
John Cleland, The Times!, Volume 1, a verse satire
George Cockings, War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah, a 28-page poem supporting British generals; the poem would be republished three more times by 1765; English Colonial America^[1]
George Colman, the elder, and Robert Lloyd, Two Odes, Part 1: "To Obscurity", Part 2: "To Oblivion", parodizing Thomas Gray^[2]
John Delap, Elegies^[2]
Robert Lloyd:
- The Actor, published anonymously,^[2] a popular poem of its time
- The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus^[2]
James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
James Scott, Heaven: A vision, Seatonian Prize winner^[2]
John Scott, Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral, published anonymously^[2]
Anna Steele, published under the name "Theodosia", Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, two volumes; she donated her earnings from the book to charity, Colonial America^[3]
The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"

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

January 6 – Richard Polwhele, English clergyman, poet and topographer (died 1838)
March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish hostess of a salon, poet and painter
March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)
May 10:
- Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (died 1826)
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French poet, composer (died 1836)

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ 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

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