- 1753 in poetry
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year=1753
ya1=1754
ya2=1755
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Christopher Smart wins theSeatonian Prize for the third time. He won it in 1750 and 1751 and will win it again in 1755.Works published
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John Wesley andCharles Wesley , "Hymns and Spiritual Songs"
*Theophilus Cibber , "Lives of the Poets"
*Thomas Gray , "Hymn to Adversity"
*Christopher Smart , "The Hilliad", a satire on Sir John Hill (1716-1775), sparked by some of his criticisms of Smart's "Poems on Several Occasions" in 1752Births
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John Frederick Bryant
* George Ellis
*William Roscoe
*Phillis Wheatley United States poet, born about this time in what is nowSenegal ; became a slave at age 7, (died 1784)Deaths
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George Berkeley ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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