1749 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

United Kingdom

Title page of The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson, first published this year

• John Brown, On Liberty^[1]
• William Collins:
  • Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson, James Thomson died in August 1748^[1]
  • "The Passions"
• Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Beauty, published anonymously^[1]
• Joseph Dumbleton, "A Rhapsody on Rum", a popular, solemn poem by a Southern newspaper versifier describing how rum destroys a drinker; first published in the ' 'South Carolina Gazette' ' and reprinted in newspapers throughout English Colonial America^[2]
• Aaron Hill, Gideon; or, The Patriot^[1]
• Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated^[1]
• Henry Jones, Poems on Several Occasions^[1]
• William Mason, Isis: An elegy^[1]
• Gilbert West, Odes of Pindar^[1]

Other

• Joseph Green, "Entertainment for a Winter's Evening," a satirical poem about Boston's first Masonic procession; published in Boston, Colonial America^[3]
• Ewald von Kleist, Spring; Germany^[4]
• Anonymous, Fuqek Nitħaddet Malta ("I am talking about you, Malta"), Malta, approximate date

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 19 – Ōta Nampo (大田 南畝), the most oft-used pen name of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
• May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
• August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832), German writer
• December 15 – James Graeme (died 1772), Scottish poet
• December 25 – Samuel Jackson Pratt (died 1814), English poet and writer
• Undated – Wang Yun (died 1819), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing Dynasty

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 22 – Matthew Concanen (born 1701), Irish-born English poet and writer
• May – Samuel Boyse (born 1702/3), Irish poet
• June 18 – Ambrose Philips (born 1674), English poet and politician
• August 13 – Johann Elias Schlegel (born 1719), German critic and poet

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. 
2. ↑ Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7. 
3. ↑ Gates, Henry Louis Jr (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Civitas Books. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5. 
4. ↑ Thomas, Calvin (1909). A History of German Literature. New York: D. Appleton & Company. Retrieved 2009-12-14.