1763 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766
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Years:	1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766

1 Events
2 Works published
- 2.1 Charles Churchill's poems of controversy
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 See also
6 Notes

[edit] Events

In 1763, Charles Churchill's fellow poet and friend, Robert Lloyd was in Fleet Prison for debt. Churchill paid a guinea a week for Lloyd's better maintenance, and raised a subscription to set him free, although Lloyd was still in prison when he died the next year.

[edit] Works published

Hugh Blair, A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian
James Macpherson, Temora
Christopher Smart, "Song to David"

[edit] Charles Churchill's poems of controversy

William Hogarth's 1763 cartoon targeting Churchill

Poet Charles Churchill became a close ally of politician John Wilkes in the early 1760s, and assisted him with the North Briton newspaper. These poems were all published this year:^[1]

The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral, the first of several Churchill poems that stirred controversy this year, was a violent satire on Scottish influence and fell in with the current hatred of Lord Bute. The Scottish place-hunters were as much alarmed as the actors had been in 1761, when Churchill terrorised them with his Rosciad.
Epistle to William Hogarth was in answer to the caricature of Wilkes made during the trial. In the poem, Churchill attacked Hogarth's vanity and envy with an invective which David Garrick quoted as shocking and barbarous. Hogarth retaliated with a caricature of Churchill as a bear in torn clerical bands hugging a pot of porter and a club made of lies and North Britons.
The Duellist is a virulent satire on the most active opponents of Wilkes in the House of Lords, especially Bishop Warbuxton.
The Ghost, was an attack on Samuel Johnson among others, calling Johnson, "Pomposo, insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling crowd."
The Conference
The Author, highly praised by Churchills contemporaries.