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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.

Works published

• James Beattie, Original Poems and Translations
• 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
• George Colman, the elder, and Robert Lloyd, Two Odes, Part 1: "To Obscurity", Part 2: "To Oblivion", parodizing Thomas Gray
• John Delap, Elegies
• 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, published anonymously, a popular poem of its time
  • The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
• James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
• James Scott, Heaven: A vision, Seatonian Prize winner
• John Scott, Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral, published anonymously
• 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"

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " 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)

Deaths

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

• February 14 — Isaac Hawkins Browne (born 1705), English poet
• May 9 – Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (born 1700), German
• date unknown
  • Bharatchandra Ray (born 1712), Bengali and Sanskrit poet and song composer

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. ^ 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
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

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