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Overview of the events of 1766 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
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Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards
[1]
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John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral
[1]
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Isaac D'Israeli, The Literary Character
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John Freeth, The Political Songster
[1]
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Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology published this year, although the book states "1767"
[1]
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Francis Hopkinson, "A Psalm of Thanksgiving",
English,
Colonial America
[2]
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Charles Jenner, Poems
[1]
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Thomas Letchworh, "A Morning and Evening's Meditation; or, A Descant on the Times",
English,
Colonial America
[2]
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Henry James Pye, Beauty
[1]
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Anna Williams, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
[1]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- September 23 -
John Brown (born
1715),
English clergyman, essayist and poet
- c. November -
Catherine Jemmat, née Yeo (born c.
1714),
English memoirist and anthologist
- December 12 -
Johann Christoph Gottsched (born
1700),
German critic
- December 24 -
James Grainger (born c.
1721),
Scottish-born doctor, poet and translator, of "West Indian fever" in
Saint Kitts
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Robert Andrews (born
1723),
English Presbyterian minister, poet and translator, insane
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Hazin Lahiji (born
1692),
Persian poet and scholar
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g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
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b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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