1759 in poetry

1759 in poetry

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Events

*Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena.
* September 12 — Just before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in the Seven Years' War, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751) to his officers, adding, "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow".

Works published

* Edward Young, "Conjectures on Original Composition" (criticism)

Births

* Robert Burns
* Friedrich Schiller, German poet and dramatist (died 1805)

Deaths

* June 12 — William Collins, 37, English poet
* August 24 — Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (born 1715)
* Martha Brewster (after this year)
* Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry


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