1760 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- June–October – Gaelic poetry.[1]
- October 25 – With the death of King George II of Great Britain, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702, is considered to have ended.
Works published
- James Beattie, Original Poems and Translations[2]
- John Cleland, The Times!, Volume 1, a verse satire
- George Cockings, War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah, a 28-page poem supporting British generals; the poem would be republished three more times by 1765; English Colonial America[3]
- George Colman, the elder, and Robert Lloyd, Two Odes, Part 1: "To Obscurity", Part 2: "To Oblivion", parodying Thomas Gray[2]
- John Delap, Elegies[2]
- Jupiter Hammon, An Evening Thought, the first poem published by an African American in English Colonial America; printed as a broadside; the poem's meter was common in Great Awakening sermons and African American a cappella hymns[3]
- Robert Lloyd:
- James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland[4]
- James Scott, Heaven: A vision, Seatonian Prize winner[2]
- John Scott, Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral, published anonymously[2]
- Anne Steele, published under the name "Theodosia", Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, two volumes; she donated her earnings from the book to charity, Colonial America[5]
- The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – Richard Polwhele, English clergyman, poet and topographer (died 1838)
- March 2 – Swedishhostess of a salon, poet and painter
- March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)
- May 10
- German poet (died 1826)
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French poet, composer (died 1836)
- October 26 – Maria Petronella Woesthoven, Dutch poet (died 1830)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 14 – Isaac Hawkins Browne (born 1705), English poet
- May 9 – German
- Date unknown – Sanskritpoet and song composer
See also
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-84596-210-4.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ 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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