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Overview of the events of 1762 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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Works published
Colonial America
- James Bowdoin, four poems in the anthology Harvard Verses presented to George III in an attempt to gain royal support for Harvard College.
- Thomas Godfrey, "The Court of Fancy: A Poem", English, Colonial America
- Francis Hopkinson:
- "An Exercise"
- "Science: A Poem"
- A Collection of Psalm Tunes
United Kingdom
- James Boswell, The Cub at Newmarket, published by James Dodsley
- Elizabeth Carter, Poems on Several Occasions
- Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Books I-III (followed by Book IV in 1763)
- Mary Collier, Poems, on Several Occasions
- John Cunningham, The Contemplatist
- Thomas Denton, The House of Superstition, prefixed to William Gilpin's Lives of the Reformers, written in imitation of Edmund Spenser
- William Falconer, The Shipwreck (revised in 1764 and 1769)
- Edward Jerningham, The Nunnery: An elegy in imitation of the Elegy in a Churchyard, an imitation of Thomas Gray
- James Macpherson, Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem Together with several other poems translated from the Galic language (see also Fragment of Ancient Poetry 1760, and Temora 1763)
- John Ogilvie, Poems on Various Subjects
- William Whitehead, A Charge to the Poets
- Edward Young, Resignation, published anonymously; first privately printed 1761
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- September 11 – Joanna Baillie (died 1851), Scottish poet and dramatist
- James Bisset (died 1832), Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet
- William Lisle Bowles (died 1850), English poet and critic
- André de Chénier (died 1794), French
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (died 1837), English bibliographer, writer, poet, and genealogist
- George Colman the Younger (died 1837), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
- James Hurdis (died 1801), English clergyman and a poet
- Susanna Rowson (died 1824), English-American novelist, playwright, poet, lyricist, religious writer, stage actress and educator
- Thomas Russell
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- Mary Collier (born 1688), English poet
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (born 1689), English aristocrat and writer
- Luise Adelgunde Victoria Gottsched (born 1713), German poet
See also
Notes
- 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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 12
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009