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Events

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Works published

Colonial America

• Thomas Godfrey, "The Court of Fancy: A Poem", English, Colonial America
• Francis Hopkinson, English, Colonial America:
  • "An Exercise"
  • "Science: A Poem"
  • A Collection of Psalm Tunes

United Kingdom

• James Boswell, The Cub at Newmarket, published by James Dodsley
• Elizabeth Carter, Poems on Several Occasions
• Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Books I-III (followed by Book IV in 1763)
• Mary Collier, Poems, on Several Occasions
• John Cunningham, The Contemplatist
• Thomas Denton, The House of Superstition, prefixed to William Gilpin's Lives of the Reformers, written in imitation of Edmund Spenser
• William Falconer, The Shipwreck (revised in 1764 and 1769)
• Edward Jerningham, The Nunnery: An elegy in imitation of the Elegy in a Churchyard, an imitation of Thomas Gray
• James Macpherson, Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem Together with several other poems translated from the Galic language (see also Fragment of Ancient Poetry 1760, and Temora 1763)
• John Ogilvie, Poems on Various Subjects
• William Whitehead, A Charge to the Poets
• Edward Young, Resignation, published anonymously; first privately printed 1761

Other

• Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, Marília de Dirceu

Births

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

• September 11 – Joanna Baillie (died 1851), Scottish poet and dramatist
• James Bisset (died 1832), Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet
• William Lisle Bowles (died 1850), English poet and critic
• André de Chénier (died 1794), French
• Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (died 1837), English bibliographer, writer, poet, and genealogist
• George Colman the Younger (died 1837), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
• James Hurdis (died 1801), English clergyman and a poet
• Susanna Rowson (died 1824), English-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator
• Thomas Russell

Deaths

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

• Mary Collier (born 1688), English poet
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (born 1689), English aristocrat and writer
• Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched (born 1713), German poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
2. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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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