1756 in poetry explained

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

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:
  • Hymn to the Supreme Being^[1]
  • Translator, The Works of Horace (see also Works of Horace, Translated into Verse 1767)^[1]
• 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:

• April  - William Gifford (died 1826), English satiric poet and literary editor
• 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
• Frehat Bat Avraham, Jewish Poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes and References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. 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. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602 - 1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Candide.id-50,pageNum-35.html Candide: Book Summary and Study Guide