Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Isaac Bickerstaffe, Leucothoe...
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the Académie française, gives a discours de réception in which he criticizes Boileau's poetry. June 18 – Samuel Johnson signs a contract to compile A...
1756. March 1 – The first issue of The Critical Review is published, with Tobias Smollett as editor. April–May – Beginning of the Seven Years' War in...
Events from the year 1756in Scotland. Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Pringle of Alemore Lord President...
brief vogue, as after the publication of Peter Whalley's edition of 1756. Jonson's poetry continues to interest scholars for the light which it sheds on English...
Works of Horace in English Verse (various translators). John Dyer – The Fleece Carlo Gozzi – La tartana degli influssi per l'anno 1756 Thomas Gray – Odes...
Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America. February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution...
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...
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...
The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. The chair was created in 1708 by an endowment from the estate of Henry...
nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Christopher Smart writes "Jubilate Agno" (about 1758-63), only published in 1939 Mark...
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 12 — Battle of Kunersdorf...
nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time. He won it in 1750 and 1751...
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May 6 – Asylum confinement of...
with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published...
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;...
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...
literary discourse. From the Baroque elegance of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's poetry to the modernist prose of Carlos Fuentes, Mexican authors adeptly explore...
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – The Club, a London...
Bukhara Khanate (1599–1756). Baqi Muhammad Khan, despite his short reign, carried out administrative, tax and military reforms in the country, which contributed...
melarance (The Love for Three Oranges) Il corvo (The Raven) Arthur Murphy All in the Wrong The Citizen The Old Maid John Armstrong – A Day: An epistle to John...
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...
by the noted Shakespearean editor Edward Capell in his Prolusions; or, Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry, Compil'd with great Care from their several Originals...
the Drury Lane Theatre in London. June 21 – Licensing Act transfers responsibility for pre-production censorship of plays in Britain from the Master...
Edinburgh, the first held in the field of English literature. Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes a professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena...
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