1757 in poetry
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Years in poetry: | 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 |
Years in literature: | 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 |
Decades in poetry: | 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s |
Centuries in poetry: | 17th century 18th century 19th century |
Centuries: | 17th century · 18th century · 19th century |
Decades: | 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s |
Years: | 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 |
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[edit] Events
- William Whitehead made British Poet Laureate after Thomas Gray refuses it
- Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford
[edit] Works published
- Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744
- Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
- John Dyer, The Fleece
- Thomas Gray, Odes, including "The Progress of Poesy"
- William Wilkie, Epigoniad