1757 in poetry

1757 in poetry

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Events

* William Whitehead made British Poet Laureate after Thomas Gray refuses it
* Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford

Works published

English language

* Mark Akenside, "The Pleasures of the Imagination", revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744
* Edmund Burke, "Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful"
* John Dyer, "The Fleece"
* Thomas Gray, "Odes", including "The Progress of Poesy"
* William Wilkie, "Epigoniad"

Other languages

* J. J. Bodmer, editor, publishes portions of the "Nibelunglied": "The Revenge of Kriemheld" and "The Lament Over the Heroes of Etzel" [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=B955sPuktZ8C&pg=PA461&lpg=PA461&dq=%22jj+bodmer%22+1757&source=web&ots=rNrThZptL6&sig=eNoJoeuuIgL2EtRocKdlRSOYLdQ&hl=en Google Books] online version of Gayley, Charles Mills, "The Classic Myths in English Literature and Art", Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0819603201 Retrieved March 22, 2008]

Births

* William Blake
* William Sotheby

Deaths

* Mary Barber
* Colley Cibber
* John Dyer, Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1699 or 1700)
* Thomas Edwards

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry

Notes


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