1756 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
United Kingdom
- Isaac Bickerstaffe, Leucothoe, published anonymously[1]
- Francies Brooke, Virginia: A tragedy, a drama that contains poems[1]
- Richard Owen Cambridge, An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room, a parody of Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard[1]
- Thomas Cole, The Arbour; or, The Rural Philosopher, published anonymously[1]
- William Kenrick, Epistles to Lorenzo, published anonymously[1]
- William Mason, Odes[1]
- Edward Moore, Poems, Fables and Plays[2]
- Christopher Pitt, Poems [...] Together with The Jordan, "By the celebrated translator of Virgil's Aeneid", according to the book[1]
- Christopher Smart:
- Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope,[1] Volume 1 (Volume 2 published in 1782), criticism
English, Colonial America
- Jacob Duche, "Pennsylvania: A Poem", English, Colonial America[3]
- Samuel Tilden, Tilden's Miscellaneous Poems, on Divers Occasions, Chiefly to Animate and Rouse the Soldiers, English, Colonial America, posthumously published[3]
Other
- Solomon Gessner, Switzerland, German-language:
- Idyllen, versions of the work eventually appeared in English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Czech (see also a second volume of Idyllen 1772)
- Inkel und Yanko, a reworked story borrowed from The Spectator (No. 11, March 13, 1711)
- Voltaire, Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ("Poem on the Lisbon Disaster"), on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; 180 lines, composed in December, 1755; France[4]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 25 (probable year) – Elizabeth Hamilton (died 1816), Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist
- November 13 – Edward Rushton (died 1814), English poet, bookseller and abolitionist
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 26 – Gilbert West (born 1703), English poet
- c. April 1 – Stephen Duck (born 1705), English "thresher poet", by suicide
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Ward, Sir Adolphus William et al., editors, The Cambridge history of English literature, Volume 10, p 491, New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons (this edition; also Cambridge, England: University Press) 1913, retrieved via Google Books on January 10, 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ Candide: Book Summary and Study Guide
