1748 in poetry

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

Works published

Title page of Mary Leapor's Poems

James Thomson, who published and died this year

United Kingdom

• Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon^[1]
• Robert Dodsley, editor, first three volumes of A Collection of Poems (1748–58), Volume 2 includes Thomas Gray's "Ode [on the Spring]", "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" and "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (first published separately 1747)^[1]
• William Kenrick, The Town^[1]
• Mary Leapor, Poems upon Several Occasions (1748–51), posthumous
• Ambrose Philips, Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems^[1]
• Thomas Sheridan, The Simile; or, Woman: a Cloud, published posthumously^[1]
• James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser.,^[1] a mock-Spenserian poem; published by Andrew Millar (see also "Deaths", below)
• Thomas Warton, the elder, Poems on Several Occasions, published posthumously, edited by Joseph Warton, who also included two of his own odes^[1]

Other

• Johann Jakob Bodmer, Proben der alten schwäbischen Poesie des dreyzehnten Jahrhunderts. Aus der Manessischen Sammlung, German-language anthology published in Switzerland

Births

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

• January 1 (disputed — see explanation here) - Gottfried August Bürger (died 1794), German poet
• June 14 – Henry Alline (died 1784), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
• October 13 – Henry Livingston, Jr. (died 1828), American farmer and poet; his family later claimed he, not Clement Moore, wrote "The Night Before Christmas"

• Also:
  • Ludwig Christoph Holty (died 1776), German poet and lyricist
  • Hugh Henry Brackenridge, (died 1816), American writer, poet, lawyer, judge, and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice^[2]

Deaths

Watt' tomb in Bunhill Fields

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

• August 27 – James Thomson, 47 (born 1700), Scots poet and playwright who wrote the words to Rule Britannia
• November 25 – Isaac Watts (born 1674), English hymnist, called the "Father of English Hymnody"
• Also:
  • Mohammed Awzal (born 1670), Moroccan religious Berber poet
  • Antoine Danchet (born 1671), French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet
  • Christopher Pitt (born 1699), English poet and translator

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 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6. 
2. ↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009