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Overview of the events of 1748 in poetry
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(July 2010 )
Works published
Title page of
Mary Leapor 's Poems
James Thomson , who published and died this year
Mark Akenside , An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon
[1]
Robert Dodsley , editor, first three volumes of A Collection of Poems (1748–58), Volume 2 includes
Thomas Gray 's "Ode [on the Spring]", "
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes " and "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (first published separately
1747 )
[1]
William Kenrick , The Town
[1]
Mary Leapor , Poems upon Several Occasions (1748–51), posthumous
Ambrose Philips , Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems
[1]
Thomas Sheridan , The Simile; or, Woman: a Cloud , published posthumously
[1]
James Thomson ,
The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser. ,
[1] a mock-Spenserian poem; published by Andrew Millar (see also "Deaths", below)
Thomas Warton , the elder, Poems on Several Occasions , published posthumously, edited by
Joseph Warton , who also included two of his own odes
[1]
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 (disputed — see explanation
here ) –
Gottfried August Bürger (died
1794 ),
German poet
June 14 –
Henry Alline (died
1784 ),
American -born
Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
October 13 –
Henry Livingston, Jr. (died
1828 ),
American farmer and poet; his family later claim he, not
Clement Moore , is the author of "The Night Before Christmas"
December 21 –
Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (died
1776 ),
German poet and lyricist
Also –
Hugh Henry Brackenridge (died
1816 ), Scottish-born
American writer, poet, lawyer, judge and
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice
[2]
Deaths
Watts ' tomb in
Bunhill Fields
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
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