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Events

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Works published

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 Feminiad: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year (a second edition, now called The Feminead, 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]

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]

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

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ "Observations on Female Literature" article in The Westminster Magazine, June 1776, pp 283-285. Retrieved March 30, 2008. Archived 2009-07-25.
^ 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
^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

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