1754 in poetry
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Events
Works published
- Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously[1]
- Thomas Denton, Immortality; or, The Consolation of Human Life, published anonymously[1]
- John Duncombe, The Feminead: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year (a second edition came out in 1757). The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write.[2]
- Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy
- Henry Jones, The Relief; or, Day Thoughts, occasioned by Edward Young's The Complaint 1742[1]
- Jonathan Swift, The Works of Jonathan Swift, published posthumously; edited by John Hawkesworth; five more volumes were published from 1764 through 1765 and six volumes of letters from 1766 through 1768[1]
- Thomas Warton the younger, Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, criticism[1]
- William Whitehead, Poems on Several Occasions[1]
Other
Births
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Deaths
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See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ "Observations on Female Literature" article in The Westminster Magazine, June 1776, pp 283-285. Retrieved March 30, 2008. Archived 2009-07-25.
- ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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