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==Events==
*August 12 &mdash; [[Battle of Kunersdorf]] ([[Seven Years' War]]): [[German poetry|German poet]] Major [[Ewald Christian von Kleist]] is fatally injured.
*September 12 &mdash; Just before the [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]], in the [[Seven Years' War]], British General [[James Wolfe]] is said to have recited [[Thomas Gray]]'s ''[[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]]'' ([[1751 in poetry|1751]]) to his officers, adding, "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow".
*[[Christopher Smart]], [[Christopher Smart's asylum confinement|confined]] to [[St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics]] in [[London]], begins to write ''[[Jubilate Agno]]''.
*[[Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch]] becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the [[University of Jena]].

==Works published==
* [[Samuel Butler (poet)|Samuel Butler]] (died 1680), ''The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose'', posthumous<ref name=cocel>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref>
* [[Edward Capell]], editor, ''[[Prolusions]]; or, Select Pieces of Antient Poetry'', published anonymously this year, although the book states [[1760 in poetry|1760]]<ref name=cocel/>
* [[John Gilbert Cooper]], translator, ''Ver-Vert; or, The Nunnery Parrot'', published anonymously, translated from the [[French poetry|French]] of [[Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset]]'s mock epic ''Ver-Vert'' [[1733 in poetry|1733]]<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Frances Greville]], "Prayer for Indifference", published in the ''Edinburgh Chronicle''
* [[Mary Latter]], ''The Miscellaneous Works''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[William Mason (poet)|William Mason]], ''Caractacus''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Augustus Toplady]] (born 1740), ''Poems on Sacred Subjects'', published anonymously<ref name=cocel/> in the author's 18th birthday year
* [[Francis Williams (poet)|Francis Williams]], "Ode to Governor Haldane", the first known published poem by a [[Caribbean poetry|Jamaican]] black<ref>Williams, Emily Allen (2002). "[https://books.google.com/books?id=-jzJb96uTdQC&pg=PR17&dq=Timeline+poetry&ei=whCOScW-DpvWzAS-s_y5BQ#PPR17,M1 Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry]. ''Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970&ndash;2001: An Annotated Bibliography''. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. xvii. {{ISBN|978-0-313-31747-7}}. Retrieved via Google Books 2009-02-07.</ref>
* [[Edward Young]], ''Conjectures on Original Composition'' (criticism)

==Births==
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 25 &ndash; [[Robert Burns]], also known as "Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard of Ayrshire" and, in Scotland, simply "The Bard" (died [[1796 in poetry|1796]]), [[Scottish poetry|Scottish]] poet and lyricist, called the national poet of Scotland
* March 26 &ndash; [[John Mayne]] (died [[1836 in poetry|1836]]), [[Scottish poetry|Scottish]] poet, journalist and printer
* November 10 &ndash; [[Friedrich Schiller]] (died [[1805 in poetry|1805]]), [[German poetry|German]] poet and dramatist
* date not known:
**[[A. Flowerdew]] (died [[1830 in poetry|1830]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet and hymnist
**[[Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton]] (died [[1846 in poetry|1846]]), [[American poetry|American]]<ref name=ucapb>Web page titled [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography"] at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009</ref>

==Deaths==
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* June 12 &ndash; [[William Collins (poet)|William Collins]], 37 (born [[1721 in poetry|1721]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet
* August 24 &ndash; [[Ewald Christian von Kleist]] (born [[1715 in poetry|1715]]), [[German poetry|German]] poet
* November 2 &ndash; Sir [[Charles Hanbury Williams]] (born [[1708 in poetry|1708]]), [[Welsh poetry|Welsh]] diplomat and satiric poet
* Approximate year
** [[Martha Wadsworth Brewster]] (born [[1710 in poetry|1710]]), [[American poetry|American]] poet
** [[Mary Masters]] (born [[1694 in poetry|1694]]?), [[English poetry|English]] poet

==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[Poetry]]
*[[List of years in poetry]]
* [[18th century in poetry]]
* [[Augustan poetry]]
* [[Augustan literature]]

==Notes==
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