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Overview of the events of 1749 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- 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
- Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes
- William Collins:
- On the Death of Thomson
- "The Passions"
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " 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 penname 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
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- June 19 — Ambrose Philips, English poet (born 1675)
See also
Notes
- Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
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