1754 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

Works published

United Kingdom

• Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously[1]
• Thomas Denton, Immortality; or, The Consolation of Human Life, published anonymously[1]
• John Duncombe, The Feminead: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year (a second edition came out in 1757). The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write.[2]
• Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy
• Henry Jones, The Relief; or, Day Thoughts, occasioned by Edward Young's The Complaint 1742[1]
• Jonathan Swift, The Works of Jonathan Swift, published posthumously; edited by John Hawkesworth; five more volumes were published from 1764 through 1765 and six volumes of letters from 1766 through 1768[1]
• Thomas Warton the younger, Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, criticism[1]
• William Whitehead, Poems on Several Occasions[1]

English, Colonial America

• John Mercer, The Dinwiddianae Poems and Prose, begins on November 4 (continues until 1757), a satiric series using puns, mock-heroics and invective attacking the policies of Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie and General Edward Braddock; English Colonial America[3]
• William Shirley, The Antigonian and Bostonian Beauties: A Poem, English, Colonial America[4]

Other

• Solomon Gessner, Daphnis, Switzerland, German-language

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 11 – Juan Meléndez Valdés (died 1817), Spanish
• March 24 – Joel Barlow (died 1812), American poet and diplomat
• May 23 – William Drennan (died 1820), Irish
• June 18 – Anna Maria Lenngren (died 1817), Swedish
• August 27 – John Codrington Bampfylde (died 1796), English
• September 25 – Thomas Maurice (died 1824), English poet and clergyman
• December 24 – George Crabbe (died 1832), English
• Earliest likely year – Jane Cave (died 1812), Welsh

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 28 – Ludvig Holberg (born 1684), Danish/Norwegian poet and playwright
• February 1 – Elizabeth Tollet (born 1694), English
• March 25 – William Hamilton (born 1704), Scottish Jacobite
• October 28 – Friedrich von Hagedorn (born 1708), German
• Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill (born 1691), 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, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. "Observations on Female Literature" article in The Westminster Magazine, June 1776, pp 283-285. Retrieved March 30, 2008. Archived 2009-07-25.
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press