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Overview of the events of 1760 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).

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.

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
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
Robert Lloyd, The Actor, a popular poem of its time
James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
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
The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"

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January 6 – Richard Polwhele *died 1838), English clergyman, poet and topographer
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 " in poetry" article:

^ 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
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 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009

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