1756 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Isaac Bickerstaffe, Leucothoe, published anonymously
• Francies Brooke, Virginia: A tragedy, a drama that contains poems
• Richard Owen Cambridge, An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room, a parody of Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard
• Thomas Cole, The Arbour; or, The Rural Philosopher, published anonymously
• William Kenrick, Epistles to Lorenzo, published anonymously
• William Mason, Odes
• Edward Moore, Poems, Fables and Plays
• Christopher Pitt, Poems [...] Together with The Jordan, "By the celebrated translator of Virgil's Aeneid", according to the book
• Christopher Smart:
  • Hymn to the Supreme Being
  • Translator, The Works of Horace (see also Works of Horace, Translated into Verse 1767)
• Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Volume 1 (Volume 2 published in 1782), criticism

[[English poetry|English]], [[American poetry|Colonial America]]

• Jacob Duche, "Pennsylvania: A Poem", English, Colonial America
• Samuel Tilden, Tilden's Miscellaneous Poems, on Divers Occasions, Chiefly to Animate and Rouse the Soldiers, English, Colonial America, posthumously published

Other

• Solomon Gessner, Switzerland, German-language:
  • Idyllen, versions of the work eventually appeared in English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Czech (see also a second volume of Idyllen 1772)
  • Inkel und Yanko, a reworked story borrowed from The Spectator (No. 11, March 13, 1711)
• Voltaire, Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ("Poem on the Lisbon Disaster"), on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; 180 lines, composed in December, 1755; France

Births

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

• April – William Gifford (died 1826), English satiric poet and literary editor
• July 25 (probable year) – Elizabeth Hamilton (died 1816), Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist
• November 13 – Edward Rushton (died 1814), English poet, bookseller and abolitionist

Deaths

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

• March 26 – Gilbert West (born 1703), English poet
• c. April 1 – Stephen Duck (born 1705), English "thresher poet", by suicide
• Frehat Bat Avraham, Jewish Poet

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Ward, Sir Adolphus William et al., editors, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rd07AAAAIAAJ ''The Cambridge history of English literature, Volume 10''], p 491, New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons (this edition; also Cambridge, England: University Press) 1913, retrieved via Google Books on January 10, 2010
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Candide.id-50,pageNum-35.html Candide: Book Summary and Study Guide] {{webarchive. link. (May 16, 2011)