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Events

Works published

• John Cleland, The Times!, Volume 1, a verse satire
• Robert Lloyd, The Actor, a popular poem of its time
• James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
• The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"

Births

• March 10 — Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)
• May 10 — Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (died 1826)
• Richard Polwhele
• Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French poet (died 1836)

Deaths

• date unknown — Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) (born 1705)

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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