1753 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 it in 1750 and 1751 and will win it again in 1755.

[edit] Works published

• John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
• Theophilus Cibber, Lives of the Poets
• Thomas Gray, "Hymn to Adversity"
• Christopher Smart, The Hilliad, a satire on Sir John Hill (1716-1775), sparked by some of his criticisms of Smart's Poems on Several Occasions in 1752

[edit] Births

• John Frederick Bryant
• George Ellis
• William Roscoe
• Phillis Wheatley United States poet, born about this time in what is now Senegal; became a slave at age 7, (died 1784)

[edit] Deaths

• George Berkeley

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry