1751 in poetry

Events

• Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the second year in a row. He will also win the prize in 1753 and 1755.

Works published

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Richard Owen Cambridge, The Scribleriad, in six books, first published separately from January through March
• Thomas Cooke, An Ode on the Powers of Poetry, published anonymously
• Nathaniel Cotton, Visions in Verse, published anonymously, a verse version for children of Gay's Fables 1727
• Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published anonymously, a literary sensation published February 15 by Robert Dodsley in a quarto pamphlet with a preface by Horace Walpole (reprinted in Designes by Mr. R. Bentley 1753 and in Gray's Poems 1768); an important work of the Graveyard poets movement
• Mary Leapor, Poems Upon several Occasions, edited by Samuel Richardson and Isaac Hawkins, published posthumously (see also Poems upon Several Occasions 1748
• Moses Mendes, The Seasons
• Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, edited by William Warburton, published posthumously

[[Swiss poetry|Switzerland]], [[German poetry|German]] language

• Johann Jakob Bodmer:
  • Die Sundflutz, an epic
  • Noah, an epic
• Solomon Gessner, Lied eines Schweizers an sein bewaffnetes Madchen, German-language work published in Switzerland

Other

• Christoph Martin Wieland, Nature of Things, alexandrine verse, in six books; Germany

Births

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

• January 22 – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) (died 1827), Welsh poet
• February 20 – Johann Heinrich Voss (died 1826), German poet
• October 15 – David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg) (died 1798), Welsh naval surgeon and poet
• October 30 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (died 1816), Irish playwright, poet, speechwriter and Whig politician
• Probable date – Mary Scott (died 1793), English poet
• Approximate date – Henrietta Battier (died 1813), Irish poet, satirist and actress

Deaths

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

• April 19 – John Bancks (Banks) (born 1709), English poet and author
• May 24 – William Hamilton (born 1665?), Scottish comic poet
• October 26 – Philip Doddridge (born 1702), English Nonconformist preacher and writer

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Thomas, Calvin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n9EPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22German+literature%22 ''A History of German Literature''], New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009