1750 in poetry explained

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

Events

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

Works published

• 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]

Births

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"

Deaths

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

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004,, retrieved via Google Books