1754 in poetry

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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]

John Mercer, The Dinwiddianae Poems and Prose, begins on November 4 (continues until 1757), a satiric series using puns, mock-heroics and invective attacking the policies of Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie and General Edward Braddock; English Colonial America^[3]
William Shirley, The Antigonian and Bostonian Beauties: A Poem, English, Colonial America^[4]

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

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 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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