1750 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1750 in poetry

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Events

Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for "On the Attributes of the Supreme Being"

William Collins, The Passions: An ode^[1]
Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Moartial Virtue, published anonymously^[1]
Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life, published anonymously; has also been attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; published this year, although the book states "1751"^[1]
Mary Jones, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse^[1]
Charlotte Lennox, The Art of Coquetry
James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions, posthumous
Thomas Warton, the younger, New-market, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1751"
Edward Young, The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, published anonymously; the collected edition of Nights, Books 1–9 (see The Complaint 1742)^[1]

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

April 24 – John Trumbull (died 1831), American poet^[2]
June 19 – Lemuel Hopkins (died 1801), American^[2] poet and satirist^[3]
July 30 – John Taylor (died 1826), English businessman, poet and Unitarian hymn writer
September 5 – Robert Fergusson (died 1774), Scottish poet
September 18 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa (died 1791), Spanish poet
October 31 – Leonor de Almeida Portugal (died 1839), Portuguese poet
November 7 – Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (died 1819), German poet
December 8 – Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay (died 1825), Scottish poet and author of the ballad "Auld Robin Gray"

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

February 8 – Aaron Hill (born 1685), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
March 20 – Johann Sigismund Scholze (born 1705), German
March 21 – Mehetabel Wesley Wright (born 1697), English
July 29 – Laetitia Pilkington (born c. 1709), Anglo-Irish poet and memoirist
John Winstanley (born 1678?), Anglo-Irish

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

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