1755 in poetry

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

Events

• Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the fifth time (he won the same prize in 1750; 1751 1752, and 1753
• Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.

Works published

• Judgment Day, English Colonial America^[1]
• John Byrom, Epistle in Defence of Rhyme, published in Roger Comberbach's A Dispute; also published in 1755 under the title The Contest^[2]
• Letitia Pilkington, and Elizabeth Singer Rowe
• John Gilbert Cooper, The Tomb of Shakespear (see also the second edition, "corrected; with considerable alterations" and subtitled "A vision" 1755)^[2]
• David Dalrymple, editor, Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem
• Robert Dodsley, fourth volume of Collection of Poems
• Stephen Duck, Caesar's Camp; or, St. George's Hill^[2]

Births

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

• February 13 – Philibert-Louis Debucourt (died 1832), French painter, engraver and poet
• February 21 –
  Scottish
  poet
• March 15 – George Dyer (died 1841), English classicist and prolific writer
• April – Robert Merry (died 1798), English poet and dilettante
• April 16 –
  Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (died 1842), French
  portrait painter and poet
• October –
  Scottish
  poet and playwright
• November 6 –
  Dutch
  poet

• June 14 – Mary Barber (born 1685), poet and member of Jonathan Swift's circle
• Vijaya Dasa (born 1682), Indian devotional poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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