1755 in poetry

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	This is part of the List of years 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 fifth time (he won the same prize in 1750; 1751 1752, and 1753

[edit] Works published

• Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.
• Robert Dodsley, fourth volume of Collection of Poems
• Poems by Eminent Ladies, an anthology including poems by Aphra Behn, Mary Monck, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Mary Barber, and many others

[edit] Births

• Philibert Louis Debucourt, French poet (died 1832)
• George Dyer
• George Galloway (?)
• Elizabeth Lebrun, French poet (died 1842)
• Robert Merry
• Andrew Macdonald (?)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry