1752 in poetry

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

[edit] Events

• Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time (he won the same prize in 1750 and 1751, and he will win it again in 1753 and 1755).

[edit] Works published

• Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions (Some criticism of the work by Sir John Hill (1716-1775) will cause Smart to write The Hilliad, a satire on Hill in 1753)

[edit] Births

• January 2 — Philip Morin Freneau, American poet, called the "poet of the American Revolution" (died 1832)
• November 20 — Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger (died 1770)
• Edmund Gardner (?)
• Joseph Ritson
• Ann Yearsley, née Cromartie

[edit] Deaths

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry