1757 in poetry

none 1757 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events May 6 – Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart: English poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.Sherbo Arthur Christopher Smart: Scholar of the University https://archive.org/details/christophersmart0000sher registration Michigan State University Press 1967 112 (He may have been confined in a private madhouse before this.) This follows incidents in which he prayed loudly in public places, soliciting others to join him.Mounsey Chris Christopher Smart: Clown of God Lewisburg Bucknell University Press 2001 0-8387-5483-X 200 Samuel Johnson visits him and considers he should be at large, saying, "I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else." Smart is released from asylum in January 1763. While confined at St Luke's, he conceives of and writes A Song to David, published in 1763, and Jubilate Agno, not published until 1939 December 11 – Death of Colley Cibber. His office as Poet Laureate of Great Britain is declined by Thomas Gray and passes to William Whitehead. Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford Works published English language Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744 Robert Andrews, Eidyllia; or, Miscellaneous Poems, including a preface with a vehement attack on the use of rhymeCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Cornelius Arnold, Poems on Several Occasions Samuel Boyce, Poems on Several Occasions Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Poems on Divers Subjects, includes acrostics, eulogies, epithalamiums, verse letters, scriptural paraphrases, a love poem, a quaternion, verse prayer, occasional pieces,Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009 acrostics, and prose works; one of four volumes of poetry published by English Colonial American women; Brewster had to demonstrate her authorship of the book by publicly paraphrasing a psalm into verseBurt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, criticism Benjamin Church, The Choice, modeled on the English poet John Pomfret's poem of the same title; describes aristocratic aspirations of the day and favors a moral and religious way of life English Colonial America Robert Colvill, Britain, published anonymously John Gilbert Cooper, writing under the pen name "Aristippus", Epistles to the Great (see also The Call of Aristippus 1758) John Duncombe, The Feminead; or, Female Genius (see also The Feminead 1754 and Mary Scott's The Female Advocate 1774) John Dyer, The Fleece Thomas Gray, Odes by Mr. Gray, including "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard"; the first book published by Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press William Thompson, Poems on Several Occasions William Wilkie, The Epigoniad, published anonymously Edward Young, The Works of the Author of the Night Thoughts Other languages Johann Jakob Bodmer, editor, publishes portions of the Nibelunglied: "The Revenge of Kriemheld" and "The Lament Over the Heroes of Etzel",Google Books online version of Gayley, Charles Mills, The Classic Myths in English Literature and Art, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1991. 0-8196-0320-1 Retrieved March 22, 2008 German-language works published in Switzerland Births Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 27 – Andrew Macdonald (died 1790), Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright November 9 – William Sotheby (died 1833), English poet and translator November 27? – Mary Robinson, née Darby (died 1800), English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and royal mistress November 28 – William Blake (died 1827), English artist and poet Dayaram (died 1852), Indian, Gujarati-language poetMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 7 – Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti (born 1713), Italian poet, orator and philosopher December 11 – Colley Cibber (born 1671), English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate December 15 (bur.) – John Dyer (born 1699), Anglo-Welsh painter, poet and clergyman Bulleh Shah (born 1680), Punjabi Sufi poet, humanist and philosopher See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry Notes Category:18th-century poetry Poetry