1766 in poetry

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Works published

• Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards^[1]
• John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral^[1]
• Isaac D'Israeli, The Literary Character
• John Freeth, The Political Songster^[1]
• Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology published this year, although the book states "1767"^[1]
• Francis Hopkinson, "A Psalm of Thanksgiving", English, Colonial America^[2]
• Charles Jenner, Poems^[1]
• Thomas Letchworh, "A Morning and Evening's Meditation; or, A Descant on the Times", English, Colonial America^[2]
• Henry James Pye, Beauty^[1]
• Anna Williams, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse^[1]

Births

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

• Laurence Hynes, Halleran

Deaths

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

• Robert Andrews
• John Brown (born 1715), English clergyman, author and poet
• Johann Christoph Gottsched (born 1700), German
• James Grainger
• Catherine Jemmat

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes