1760 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- With the death of King George II, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702, is now considered to have ended.
[edit] Works published
- John Cleland, The Times!, Volume 1, a verse satire
- George Cockings, War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah, a 28-page poem supporting British generals; the poem would be republished three more times by 1765; English Colonial America[1]
- Jupiter Hammon, An Evening Thought, the first poem published by an African American in English Colonial America (several years earlier, Phillis Wheatley had published her poems, but in England); printed as a broadside; the poem's meter was common in Great Awakening sermons and African American a cappella hymns[1]
- Robert Lloyd, The Actor, a popular poem of its time
- James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
- Anna Steele, published under the name "Theodosia", Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, two volumes; she donated her earnings from the book to charity, Colonial America[2]
- The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – Richard Polwhele *died 1838), English clergyman, poet and topographer
- March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish hostess of a salon, poet and painter
- March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)
- May 10:
- Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (died 1826)
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French poet, composer (died 1836)
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 14 — Isaac Hawkins Browne (born 1705), English poet
- May 9 – Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (born 1700), German
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
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