1755 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...
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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 the fifth time (he won the same prize in 17501750 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for "On the Attributes of the Supreme Being"-Works published:...
; 17511751 in poetry— Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
17521752 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time .-United Kingdom:* Moses Browne, The Works and Rest of the Creation* John Byrom, Enthusiasm: A poetical...
, and 17531753 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time... - Paradise LostParadise LostParadise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...
is translated into FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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:...
prose by Louis RacineLouis RacineLouis Racine was a French poet.The second son of the dramatist Jean Racine, he was born in Paris. Interested in poetry from childhood, he had been dissuaded from trying to make it his career by Boileau on the grounds that the gift never existed in two successive generations...
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Works published
- Mather BylesMather BylesMather Byles , was a clergyman active in British North America.He was descended, on his mother's side, from John Cotton and Richard Mather. He graduated at Harvard University in 1725, and in 1733 became pastor of the Hollis Street Church , Boston...
, ' 'The Conflagration' ', a long poem in heroic couplets detailing the physical phenomena of Judgment Day, 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...
Colonial America - John ByromJohn ByromJohn Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS was an English poet and inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand. He is also remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn Christians Awake, salute the happy morn.- Early life :John Byrom was descended from an old...
, Epistle in Defence of Rhyme, published in Roger Comberbach's A Dispute; also published in 1755 under the title The Contest - George ColmanGeorge ColmanGeorge Colman may refer to:*George Colman the Elder , English dramatist*George Colman the Younger , English dramatist, son of the above-See also:*George Coleman, American musician...
, the elder, and Bonnell ThorntonBonnell ThorntonBonnell Thornton was an English poet, essayist, and critic. He was educated at Westminster School, and at Oxford University.In 1752 he founded the Drury Lane Journal, a satirical periodical which, among other things, lampooned other journals such as Johnson's Rambler, The Gentleman's Magazine and...
, editors, Poems by Eminent Ladies, an anthology with verse by 18 women poets, including Aphra BehnAphra BehnAphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature.-Early life:...
, Elizabeth CarterElizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter was an English poet, classicist, writer and translator, and a member of the Bluestocking Circle.-Biography:...
, Mary LeaporMary LeaporMary Leapor was an English poet, born in Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, the only child of Anne Sharman and Philip Leapor , a gardener...
, Anne FinchAnne FinchAnne Finch may refer to:* Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway née Finch, , an English philosopher* Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea , Countess and poet...
, Katherine PhilipsKatherine PhilipsKatherine Philips was an Anglo-Welsh poet.-Biography:Katherine Philips was the first Englishwoman to enjoy widespread public acclaim as a poet during her lifetime. Born in London, she was daughter of John Fowler, a Presbyterian, and a merchant of Bucklersbury, London. Philips is said to have read...
, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Mary Monck, Lady Mary Chudleigh and Mary BarberMary BarberMary Barber , poet, was a member of Swift's circle.- Life :Barber's parents are unknown; she married Rupert Barber , a Dublin woollen draper, and had nine children, four of whom survived to adulthood... - John Gilbert CooperJohn CooperJohn Cooper may refer to:* John A. D. Cooper , American physician & educator* John B.R. Cooper , California pioneer* John Cooper, current director of the Sundance Film Festival...
, The Tomb of Shakespear (see also the second edition, "corrected; with considerable alterations" and subtitled "A vision" 1755) - 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....
, fourth volume of Collection of Poems - Stephen DuckStephen DuckStephen Duck was an English poet whose career reflected both the Augustan era's interest in "naturals" and its resistance to classlessness....
, Caesar's Camp; or, St. George's Hill
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Philibert Louis Debucourt (died 18321832 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Weimar Classicism period in Germany is commonly considered to have begun in 1788) and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Schiller, or this year, with the death of Goethe* Thomas...
) , FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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:...
poet - George Dyer (died 18411841 in poetryThe year's at the spring,And day's at the morn;Morning's at seven;The hill-side's dew-pearled;The lark's on the wing;The snail's on the thorn;God's in his Heaven -All's right with the world!...
), 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...
classicist and a prolific writer - George Galloway (poet)
- Elizabeth Lebrun (died 18421842 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:-United Kingdom:* Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics, including "My Last Duchess"."The Pied Piper of Hamelin"...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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:...
poet - Robert Merry
- Andrew MacdonaldAndrew Macdonald (poet)Andrew Macdonald , pen name Matthew Bramble, was a Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright.-Early life and education:Andrew MacDonald was born on 27 February 1757, the son of George Donald, a gardener...
(died 17901790 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Henry James Pye became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom...
), Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Mary BarberMary BarberMary Barber , poet, was a member of Swift's circle.- Life :Barber's parents are unknown; she married Rupert Barber , a Dublin woollen draper, and had nine children, four of whom survived to adulthood...
(born 16851685 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:...
), poet, and a member of Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
's circle