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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement begins in German literature (including poetry) and music; it will last through the early 1780s. (The conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse").

Works published

Michael Bruce, Elegy Written in Spring
Francis Fawkes, Partridge-Shooting: An eclogue^[1]
Oliver Goldsmith, editor, The Beauties of English Poesy, an anthology^[1]
Francis Hopkinson, the Psalms of David [...] in Metre, English, Colonial America^[2]
Richard Jago, Edge-Hill; or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised^[1]
Henry Jones, Kew Gardens^[1]
Moses Mendes, editor, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, an anthology^[1]
William Mickle, The Concubine (reissued as Sir Martin 1778)^[1]
John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Use of Families
Phillis Wheatley, a poem published in the Newport Mercury in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761;^[3] Colonial America

Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology; although the book states it was published this year, it first appeared in 1766^[1]

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

March 1 – Alexander Balfour (died 1829), Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet
September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel (died 1845), German poet, translator, critic, and a leader of German Romanticism

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

May 17 – Roger Wolcott (born 1679), English Colonial American, governor of Connecticut and poet^[4]
June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann (died 1681), German composer and poet
July 15 – Michael Bruce (born 1746), Scottish poet
December 21 – Leonard Howard (born 1699?), English clergyman, "poet laureate of the King's Bench Prison"^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ 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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20
^ 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
^ "Leonard Howard" article in DNB

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