1762 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

Works published

Colonial America

• James Bowdoin, four poems in the anthology Harvard Verses presented to George III in an attempt to gain royal support for Harvard College[1]
• Thomas Godfrey, "The Court of Fancy: A Poem", English, Colonial America[2]
• Francis Hopkinson:
  • "An Exercise"[2]
  • "Science: A Poem"[2]
  • A Collection of Psalm Tunes[2]

United Kingdom

• James Boswell, The Cub at Newmarket, published by James Dodsley[3]
• Elizabeth Carter, Poems on Several Occasions[3]
• Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Books I-III (followed by Book IV in 1763)[3]
• Mary Collier, Poems, on Several Occasions[3]
• John Cunningham, The Contemplatist[3]
• Thomas Denton, The House of Superstition, prefixed to William Gilpin's Lives of the Reformers, written in imitation of Edmund Spenser[3]
• William Falconer, The Shipwreck (revised in 1764 and 1769)
• Edward Jerningham, The Nunnery: An elegy in imitation of the Elegy in a Churchyard, an imitation of Thomas Gray[3]
• James Macpherson, Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem [...] Together with several other poems translated from the Galic language (see also Fragment of Ancient Poetry 1760, and Temora 1763)[3]
• John Ogilvie, Poems on Various Subjects[3]
• William Whitehead, A Charge to the Poets[3]
• Edward Young, Resignation, published anonymously; first privately printed 1761[3]

Other

• Tomás António Gonzaga, Marília de Dirceu, Portuguese
• Giulio Variboba, Ghiella e Shën Mëriis Virghiër, Arbëresh

Births

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

• February 25 (bapt.) – Susanna Rowson (died 1824), English-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator[4]
• c. March or October – Thomas Russell (died 1788), English poet
• September 11 – Joanna Baillie (died 1851), Scottish poet and dramatist
• September 24 – William Lisle Bowles (died 1850), English poet and critic
• October 21 – George Colman the Younger (died 1837), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
• October 30 – André Chénier (guillotined 1794), French poet
• November 30 – Samuel Egerton Brydges (died 1837), English bibliographer, writer, poet, genealogist and politician
• Approximate date – James Bisset (died 1832), Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet

Deaths

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

• June 26 – Luise Gottsched (born 1713), German poet
• August 21 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (born 1689), English aristocrat and writer
• October 20 (bur.) – Mary Collier (born 1688), English poet and washerwoman

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Civitas Books. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5.
2. Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
4. Davis, Cynthia J.; West, Kathryn (1996). Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6. Retrieved 2009-02-07. Timeline poetry.