1750 in poetry
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Events
- Christopher SmartChristopher SmartChristopher Smart , also known as "Kit Smart", "Kitty Smart", and "Jack Smart", was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout...
wins the Seatonian PrizeSeatonian PrizeThe Seatonian Prize is awarded by the University of Cambridge for the best English poem on a sacred subject, and is open to any Master of Arts of the university. Seaton, and his prize, is referred to in the poem of George Gordon, Lord Byron 'English Bards and Scots Reviewers' 1809.- Founding :It...
for "On the Attributes of the Supreme Being"
Works published
- William CollinsWilliam Collins (poet)William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century...
, The Passions: An ode - Thomas CookeThomas Cooke (author)Thomas Cooke , often called "Hesiod" Cooke, was a very active English translator and author who ran afoul of Alexander Pope and was mentioned as one of the "dunces" in Pope's Dunciad. His father was an inn keeper, and Cooke arrived in London in 1722 and began working as a writer for the Whig causes...
, An Ode on Moartial Virtue, published anonymously - Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
, The Oeconomy of Human Life, published anonymously; has also been attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldPhilip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldPhilip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG was a British statesman and man of letters.A Whig, Lord Stanhope, as he was known until his father's death in 1726, was born in London. After being educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he went on the Grand Tour of the continent...
; published this year, although the book states "1751" - Mary JonesMary Jones (poet)Mary Jones was an English poet.She was born in Oxford, where her father, Oliver, was a cooper. Her elder brother, named Oliver like his father, became precentor and senior chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford....
, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse - Charlotte LennoxCharlotte LennoxCharlotte Lennox was an English author and poet. She is most famous now as the author of The Female Quixote and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson, but she had a long career and wrote poetry, prose, and drama.-Life:Charlotte Lennox was born in Gibraltar...
, The Art of Coquetry - James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions, posthumous
- Thomas WartonThomas WartonThomas Warton was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England...
, the younger, New-market, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1751" - Edward YoungEdward YoungEdward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night Thoughts.-Early life:He was the son of Edward Young, later Dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on 3 July 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated...
, The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, published anonymously; the collected edition of Nights, Books 1–9 (see The Complaint 17421742 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jonathan Swift suffers what appears to have been a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realizing his worst fears of becoming mentally disabled...
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- April 24 – John TrumbullJohn Trumbull (poet)John Trumbull was an American poet.-Biography:Trumbull was born in what is now Watertown, Connecticut, where his father was a Congregational preacher. At the age of seven he passed his entrance examinations at Yale, but did not enter until 1763; he graduated in 1767, studied law there, and in...
, (died 18311831 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* John Banim and Michael Banim, The Chaunt of the Cholera* Henry Glassford Bell, Summer and Winter Hours...
), American - September 18 – Tomás de Iriarte y OropesaTomás de Iriarte y OropesaTomás de Iriarte y Oropesa , was a Spanish neoclassical poet.- Life :...
(died 17911791 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Bartram's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country...
), SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature.... - November 7 – Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 18191819 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The period from September 1818 to September of this year is often referred to among scholars of John Keats as "the Great Year", or "the Living Year", because during this period he was most...
) - Lady Anne Barnard (died 18251825 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* La bibliothèque canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, begins publishing this year - United Kingdom :* Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited...
), Scottish poet and author of the balladBalladA ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
Auld Robin GrayAuld Robin GrayAuld Robin Gray is the title of a Scots ballad written by the Scottish poet Lady Anne Lindsay in 1772.The title comes from the name of its hero, a good old man who marries a young woman whose is in love with a man called Jamie who goes away to sea in order to earn money so that the couple can marry... - Sophia BurrellSophia Burrell-Biography:The eldest daughter of Charles Raymond of Valentines, Essex, she was born about 1750. On 13 April 1773 she married William Burrell, member of parliament for Haslemere and came into possession, it is said, of 100,000 pounds, then an exorbitant amount of money...
- Robert FergussonRobert FergussonRobert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson followed an essentially bohemian life course in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish enlightenment...
(died 17741774 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jacques Delille elected to membership in the Académie Française in large part due to his verse translation of the Georgics in 1769-Colonial America:* Hugh Henry Brackenridge, "A Poem on Divine...
), Scottish poet - Lemuel Hopkins, (died 18011801 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Hindusthani Press established in Calcutta, India by John Gilchrist-United Kingdom:...
), American poet and satirist - John TaylorJohn Taylor (hymn writer)John Taylor was a successful businessman, poet and composer of hymns from Norwich, England.-Early life:John Taylor was born to Richard and Margaret Taylor, and was baptized in the parish of St. George's Colgate. By Taylor's own accounts, his father Richard was a warm and caring provider as well...
(died 18261826 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Eliza Acton, Poems, Ipswich: R...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
businessman, poet and composer of hymns
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Aaron Hill (born 16851685 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:...
), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer - Laetitia PilkingtonLaetitia PilkingtonLaetitia Pilkington was a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet and important source of information on the early 18th century. Her Memoirs are the source of much of what is known of the personalities and habits of Jonathan Swift and others.Laetitia was born of two distinguished families...
(born 17081708 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-- From Richard Blackmore's The Kit-Kats. A Poem, Chapter 6, published this year and referring to the Kit-Kat Club in which the influential publisher Jacob Tonson was a prominent member...
), IrishIrish poetryThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to... - John WinstanleyJohn WinstanleyJohn Winstanley was an English Enlightenment figure and poet.- External links :Poems Written Occasionally...
- Hetty Wright
- Johann Sigismund ScholzeJohann Sigismund ScholzeJohann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes was a Silesian music anthologist and poet.-Life:...
(died 17051705 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Daniel Defoe:** The Double Welcome: A poem to the Duke of Marlbro...
), German