nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the fifth time (he won the same prize in 1750;...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1755. 1755 (MDCCLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
September 21 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock delivers a speech on epic poetry – Abschiedsrede über die epische Poesie, kultur- und literargeschichtlich...
literary events and publications of 1755. LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing...
Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language...
Disaster"), on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; 180 lines, composed in December, 1755; France Death years link to the corresponding "[year] inpoetry" article: April...
Prize for the third time. He won it in 1750 and 1751 and will win it again in1755. John Armstrong, Taste: An epistle to a young critic Theophilus Cibber...
(he won the same prize in 1750 and 1751, and he will win it again in 1753 and 1755). Moses Browne, The Works and Rest of the Creation John Byrom, Enthusiasm:...
Prize for the second year in a row. He will also win the prize in 1753 and 1755. Richard Owen Cambridge, The Scribleriad, in six books, first published...
Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America. February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution...
War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, the term can be applied to poetry about...
literature's Golden Age was in the 12th century, when a rich and complex body of lyrical poetry was produced by troubadours writing in Old Occitan, which still...
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May 6 – Asylum confinement of...
Samuel Johnson begins publishing a series of essays, The Idler (1758–1760), in the Universal Chronicle. April 24 – Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign...
known in many variants. These legends typically reworked historical events or personages in the manner of oral poetry, forming a heroic age. Heroes in these...
nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Christopher Smart writes "Jubilate Agno" (about 1758-63), only published in 1939 Mark...
Gaelic poetry. October 25 – With the death of King George II of Great Britain, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702...
with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published...
begins the Strawberry Hill Press. Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. John Brown – An Estimate of the Manners and...
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to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French poetry). Lucy Terry writes the first known poem by an...
Year: 1755 | The Poetry of the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1800". www.gmpoetrydatabase.org. Retrieved 17 January 2020. "Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive...
Stage of Life John Shebbeare – The Marriage Act Thomas Cooke – An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture John Duncombe – The Feminiad Henry Jones – The...
medieval poetry (died 1770) September 19 – Louis Fuzelier, French dramatist (born 1672) September 22 – Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (born...
Beginning of the Seven Years' War in Europe. June 20 – The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India. October 29 – Frances Abington...
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – The Club, a London...