1761 in poetry information

link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). In March, poet Charles Churchill's Rosciad was published...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1761. 1761 (MDCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

Cooke – An Ode on the Powers of Poetry Nathaniel Cotton – Visions in Verse Thomas Gray (anonymously) – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Soame Jenyns...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1761. August – Following the death of Johann Matthias Gesner, the chair of rhetoric...

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Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian. Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth material in Scottish...

1761 in poetry), English poet and schoolmaster Probable date – James Eyre Weeks, English poet Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry"...

articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Lloyd is in Fleet Prison for debt. His fellow poet...

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...

John Ash – Grammatical Institutes Thomas Bayes (died 1761) – An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances Hugh Blair – A Critical Dissertation...

nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement begins in German literature (including poetry) and...

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...

Dido Elizabeth Belle (June 1761 – July 1804) was a free black biracial British gentlewoman. She was born into slavery and illegitimate; her mother, Maria...

Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America. February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution...

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...

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in Amsterdam and The Hague respectively, are publicly burned in Paris. They are also prohibited in Rousseau's native Republic of Geneva. June 20 – In...

Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar. J. Wilkie. p. 2. "ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION". Accessed 2 January 2013 Orlando Project...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – The Club, a London...

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...

nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). James Bowdoin, four poems in the anthology Harvard Verses presented to George III in an attempt...

Juga – first appears in Alexander Hamilton's Town and Country Magazine. This year also Chatterton sends specimens of "Rowley"'s poetry and history The Ryse...

LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. —Self-deprecating...

nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Christopher Smart writes "Jubilate Agno" (about 1758-63), only published in 1939 Mark...

(born 1710) August 20 – Joseph Spence, English memoirist and professor of poetry (born 1699) November 25 – Alexander Russell, Scottish physician and naturalist...

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...

medieval poetry (died 1770) September 19 – Louis Fuzelier, French dramatist (born 1672) September 22 – Péter Apor, Hungarian historian writing in Latin (born...

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