Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
English language
- Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744
- Robert Andrews, Eidyllia; or, Miscellaneous Poems, including a preface with a vehement attack on the use of rhyme
- Cornelius Arnold, Poems on Several Occasions
- Samuel Boyce, Poems on Several Occasions
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Poems on Divers Subjects, includes acrostics, eulogies, epithalamiums, verse letters, scriptural paraphrases, a love poem, a quaternion, verse prayer, occasional pieces, acrostics, and prose works; one of four volumes of poetry published by English Colonial American women; Brewster had to demonstrate her authorship of the book by publicly paraphrasing a psalm into verse
- Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, criticism
- Benjamin Church, The Choice, modeled on the English poet John Pomfret's poem of the same title; describes aristocratic aspirations of the day and favors a moral and religious way of life English Colonial America
- Robert Colvill, Britain, published anonymously
- John Gilbert Cooper, writing under the pen name "Aristippus", Epistles to the Great (see also The Call of Aristippus 1758)
- John Duncombe, The Feminead; or, Female Genius (see also The Feminead 1754 and Mary Scott's The Female Advocate 1774)
- John Dyer, The Fleece
- Thomas Gray, Odes by Mr. Gray, including "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard"; the first book published by Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press
- William Thompson, Poems on Several Occasions
- William Wilkie, The Epigoniad, published anonymously
- Edward Young, The Works of the Author of the Night Thoughts
Other languages
Births
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 27 – Andrew Macdonald (died 1790), Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright
- November 9 – William Sotheby (died 1833), English poet and translator
- November 27? – Mary Robinson, née Darby (died 1800), English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and royal mistress
- November 28 – William Blake (died 1827), English artist and poet
- Dayaram (died 1852), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes