1768 in poetry

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

Events

Colonial America

• John Dickinson, "A Song for Freedom (Liberty Song)"
• Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, "The Dream of the Patriotic Philosophical Farmer", political verse advocating an American embargo on British goods, Colonial America
• Milcah Martha Moore, "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768", Colonial America
• Phillis Wheatley writes "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty," in which she praises George III for repealing the Stamp Act. Wheatley would later become a strong supporter of the American Revolution.
• "The Liberty Song" appears on July 16 in the Boston Gazette, called "probably the first American patriotic song"

United Kingdom

• Isaac Hawkins Browne, the elder, Poems Upon Various Subjects, Latin and English, edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne, the younger
• Thomas Gray, Poems by Mr Gray, including "The Fatal Sisters", "The Descent of Odin", "The Triumphs of Owen" but not "A Long Story"
• Richard Jago, Labour and Genius; or, The Mill-Stream, and the Cascade
• Lady Mary Montagu, Poetical Works
• Henry James Pye, Elegies on Different Occasions, published anonymously
• Alexander Ross, The Fortunate Sheperdess
• Christopher Smart, The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
• William Wilkie, Fables

Others

• Ephraim Luzzato, Ele Bene Hane'urim ("These Are the Sons of One's Youth"), Hebrew poetry published in London in an edition of 100 copies; more than 50 poems, mostly sonnets in quantitative-syllabic meters; many subsequent editions and influential among Hebrew poets of the Haskalah ("Enlightenment") movement in the 19th century.

Births

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

• October 11 – William Shepherd, English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer (died 1847)
• November 18 – Zacharias Werner, German religious poet (died 1823)
• Wang Zhenyi, Chinese Qing dynasty female poet and astronomer (died 1797)

Deaths

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

• March 28 – Thomas Mozeen, English actor and songwriter (born 1720?)
• August 17 (N. S.) – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (born 1703)
• December 20 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (born 1692)

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• French literature of the 18th century
• Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

Notes