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Events

• Christopher Smart writes "Jubilate Agno" (about 1758-63), only published in 1939

Works published

United Kingdom

• Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England
• John Gilbert Cooper, The Call of Aristippus
• Robert Dodsley:
  • Cleone: A tragedy, verse drama performed in December; the work also contains the author's poem "Melpomene", on the sublime
  • Collection of Poems, volumes five and six
• James Macpherson, The Highlander
• Thomas Parnell, Posthumous Works

English, Colonial America

• Thomas Prince, The Psalms, Hymns, & spiritual Songs of the Old and new Testaments, English, Colonial America
• Annis Boudinot Stockton, "To the Honorable Colonel Peter Schuyler" published in New-York Mercury and New American Magazine; her first published poem; Colonial America

Other

• Anica Bošković, Dijalog Serbian published in Venice
• Solomon Gessner, Der Tod Abels, Switzerland, German-language work akin to an idyllic pastoral
• Heyat Mahmud, Āmbiyābāṇī; Bengal, Bengali-language

Oliver Goldsmith's "poetical scale"

In the January 1758 edition of the Literary Magazine, an anonymous writer widely believed to be English poet and author Oliver Goldsmith presented a table comparing 29 English poets, rating them on a scale in each of four aspects of literary greatness. A score of 20 was literary perfection. Some of his estimations:

Some other poets Goldsmith placed on the scale: Michael Drayton, Lee, Aaron Hill, Nicholas Rowe, Garth, Southern and Hughes. John Donne was not listed, because, wrote Goldsmith, "Dr Donne was a man of wit, but he seems to have been at pains not to pass for a poet." (See also Mark Akenside's "Balance of Poets" of 1746.)

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• February 3
  • Vasily Kapnist (died 1823), Ukrainian poet and playwright
  • Valentin Vodnik (died 1819), Carniolan Slovene poet, writer and priest
• March 15 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (died 1825), Norwegian poet
• April 6 – Sir George Dallas, 1st Baronet (died 1833), English politician and poet
• April 30 – Jane West, born Iliffe, publishing under the pen names "Prudentia Homespun" and "Mrs. West" (died 1852), English novelist, poet, playwright and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts
• December – Mary Leadbeater (died 1826), Irish poet and writer
• Also:
  • Ryōkan 良寛, born Eizō Yamamoto (died 1831), Japanese waka poet, calligrapher, Buddhist monk and often a hermit
  • year uncertain – Joseph Fawcett (died 1804), English Presbyterian minister and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 1 – Johann Friedrich von Cronegk (born 1731), German dramatist, poet and essayist
• January 7 – Allan Ramsay (born 1686), Scottish poet
• July 15 – Ambrosius Stub (born 1705), Danish poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. 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
4. Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
5. ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, pp 249-250, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
6. Prior, James, The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: from a variety of original sources p 231, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1837, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
7. John Donne: The Critical Heritage, Volume 1, p 236, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 978-0-415-13412-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010

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