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Events
- German poet and critic Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg begins publication of his Briefe über Merkwürdigkeiten der Litteratur in which he formulates the literary principles of Sturm und Drang.
Works published
- Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards[1]
- John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral[1]
- Isaac D'Israeli, The Literary Character
- John Freeth, The Political Songster[1]
- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology published this year, although the book states "1767"[1]
- Francis Hopkinson, "A Psalm of Thanksgiving", English, Colonial America[2]
- Charles Jenner, Poems[1]
- Thomas Letchworh, "A Morning and Evening's Meditation; or, A Descant on the Times", English, Colonial America[2]
- Henry James Pye, Beauty[1]
- Anna Williams, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse[1]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 - Nguyễn Du (died 1820), Vietnamese poet
- April 27 - Vasily Pushkin (died 1830), Russian poet
- October 11 - Nólsoyar Páll (lost at sea c.1808), Faroese merchant and poet
- December 3 - Robert Bloomfield (died 1823), English "ploughboy poet"
- Maharaja Chandu Lal (died 1845), Indian Urdu- and Persian-language poet and politician
- Martha Llwyd (died 1845), Welsh poet and hymnodist
Deaths
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
- Robert Andrews (born 1723), English Presbyterian minister, poet and translator, insane
- Hazin Lahiji (born 1692), Persian poet and scholar
