1749 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

United Kingdom

• John Brown, On Liberty
• William Collins:
• Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson, James Thomson died in August 1748
• "The Passions"
• Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Beauty, published anonymously
• 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
• Aaron Hill, Gideon; or, The Patriot
• Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated
• Henry Jones, Poems on Several Occasions
• William Mason, Isis: An elegy
• Gilbert West, Odes of Pindar

Other

• Joseph Green, "Entertainment for a Winter's Evening," a satirical poem about Boston's first Masonic procession; published in Boston, Colonial America
• Ewald von Kleist, Spring; Germany
• Anonymous, Fuqek Nitħaddet Malta ("I am talking about you, Malta"), Malta, approximate date

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 19 – Ōta Nanpo (大田 南畝), the most oft-used pen name 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
• May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
• August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832), German writer
• December 15 – James Graeme (died 1772), Scottish poet
• December 25 – Samuel Jackson Pratt (died 1814), English poet and writer
• Undated – Wang Yun (died 1819), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing dynasty

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 22 – Matthew Concanen (born 1701), Irish-born English poet and writer
• February 20 – Usher Gahagan, Irish-born Latin scholar, poet and coiner, hanged
• May – Samuel Boyse (born 1702/3), Irish poet
• June 18 – Ambrose Philips (born 1674), English poet and politician
• August 13 – Johann Elias Schlegel (born 1719), German critic and poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes