1751 in poetry
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— Thomas Gray
, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published this year
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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.-Early life and education:...
, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published this year
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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 the second year in a row. He will also win the prize in 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...
and 17551755 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the fifth time Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-Events:*...
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Works published
United KingdomEnglish 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...
- Richard Owen CambridgeRichard Owen CambridgeRichard Owen Cambridge was a British poet.Cambridge was born in London. He was educated at Eton and at St John's College, Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree, he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737. Four years later he married, and went to live at his country seat of...
, The Scribleriad, in six books, first published separately from January through March - Thomas CookeThomas CookeThis page is about the instrument maker. For other persons named Thomas Cooke, see Thomas CookeThomas Cooke was a British instrument maker based on York. He founded T. Cooke & Sons, the instrument company-Life:...
, An Ode on the Powers of Poetry, published anonymously - Nathaniel CottonNathaniel CottonNathaniel Cotton was an English physician and poet.Cotton is thought to have studied at Leiden University, possibly under Herman Boerhaave. Cotton specialised in the care of patients with mental health issues, maintaining an asylum known as the Collegium Insanorum, at St Albans...
, Visions in Verse, published anonymously, a verse version for children of Gay's Fables 17271727 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jonathan Swift revisits England this year and stays with his friend Alexander Pope until the visit is cut short when Swift gets word that Esther Johnson is dying. He rushes back... - Thomas GrayThomas GrayThomas Gray was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.-Early life and education:...
, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published anonymously, a literary sensation published February 15 by 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....
in a quarto pamphlet with a preface by Horace Walpole (reprinted in Designes by Mr. R. Bentley 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...
and in Gray's Poems 17681768 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* John Dickinson, "A Song for American Freedom "...
); an important work of the Graveyard poetsGraveyard poetsThe "Graveyard Poets" were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, 'skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms' in the context of the graveyard. To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny,...
movement - 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...
, Poems Upon several Occasions, edited by Samuel RichardsonSamuel RichardsonSamuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded , Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison...
and Isaac Hawkins, published posthumously (see also Poems upon Several Occasions 17481748 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-United Kingdom:* Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon... - Moses Mendes, The Seasons
- Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
, The Works of Alexander Pope, edited by William WarburtonWilliam WarburtonWilliam Warburton was an English critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759.-Life:He was born at Newark, where his father, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was town clerk. William was educated at Oakham and Newark grammar schools, and in 1714 he was articled to Mr Kirke, an...
, published posthumously
Switzerland, German language
- Johann Jakob BodmerJohann Jakob BodmerJohann Jakob Bodmer was a Swiss-German author, academic, critic and poet.-Life:Born at Greifensee, near Zürich, and first studying theology and then trying a commercial career, he finally found his vocation in letters...
:- Die Sundflutz, an epic
- Noah, an epic
- Solomon GessnerSolomon GessnerSolomon Gessner was a Swiss painter and poet. His writing suited the taste of his time, though by some more recent standards it is “insipidly sweet and monotonously melodious.” As a painter, he represented the conventional classical landscape.-Biography:He was born in Zürich...
, Lied eines Schweizers an sein bewaffnetes Madchen, German-language work published in Switzerland
Other
- Christoph Martin WielandChristoph Martin WielandChristoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.- Biography :He was born at Oberholzheim , which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg...
, Nature of Things, alexandrineAlexandrineAn alexandrine is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods. Drama in English often used alexandrines before Marlowe and Shakespeare, by whom it was supplanted...
verse, in six books; Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Henrietta BattierHenrietta BattierHenrietta Battier [née Fleming] was an Irish poet, satirist, and actress. She married the son of a Dublin banker and had at least four children...
(died 18131813 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate after Sir Walter Scott's refusal...
), Irish poet, satirist, and actress - Richard Brinsley SheridanRichard Brinsley SheridanRichard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford , Westminster and Ilchester...
(died 18161816 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* This year was known as the "Year Without a Summer" after Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year and cast enough ash in to the atmosphere to block out the sun and cause...
), Irish playwright, poet, speechwriter and WhigBritish Whig PartyThe Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
statesmanStatesmanA statesman is usually a politician or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career in politics or government at the national and international level. As a term of respect, it is usually left to supporters or commentators to use the term... - David SamwellDavid SamwellDavid Samwell was a Welsh naval surgeon and poet. He was an important supporter of Welsh cultural organisations and was known by the pseudonym Dafydd Ddu Feddyg.-Personal history:...
, also known by the pseudonym Dafydd Ddu Feddyg, (died 17981798 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Wordsworth begins writing the first version of The Prelude, finishing it in two parts in 1799. This version describes the growth of his understanding up to age 17, when he departed for...
), Welsh naval surgeon and poet - February 20 — Johann Heinrich Voss (died 18261826 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Eliza Acton, Poems, Ipswich: R...
), German poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- John BanksJohn Bancks-References:...
also spelled "Bancks" (born 17091709 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...
), 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...
poet and author - Philip DoddridgePhilip DoddridgePhilip Doddridge DD was an English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter.-Early life:...
(born 17021702 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Interior or The Narrow Road to the Deep North was published in 1702...
), Nonconformist preacher and writer - William Hamilton (born 16651665 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Cotton, Scarronides; or, Virgile Travestie, published anonymously...
), Scottish poet