1749 in poetry
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Events
Works published
United Kingdom
- John Brown, On Liberty[1]
- William Collins:
- Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson, James Thomson died in August 1748[1]
- "The Passions"
- Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Beauty, published anonymously[1]
- Joseph Dumbleton, "A Rhapsody on Rum", a popular, solemn poem by a Southern newspaper versifier describing how rum destroys a drinker; first published in the ' 'South Carolina Gazette' ' and reprinted in newspapers throughout English Colonial America[2]
- Aaron Hill, Gideon; or, The Patriot[1]
- Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated[1]
- Henry Jones, Poems on Several Occasions[1]
- William Mason, Isis: An elegy[1]
- Gilbert West, Odes of Pindar[1]
Other
- Joseph Green, "Entertainment for a Winter's Evening," a satirical poem about Boston's first Masonic procession; published in Boston, Colonial America[3]
- Ewald von Kleist, Spring; Germany[4]
- Anonymous, Fuqek Nitħaddet Malta ("I am talking about you, Malta"), Malta, approximate date
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 19 â Åta Nanpo (å¤§ç° åç), the most oft-used pen name of Åta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, KyÅkaen, and Shokusanjin è山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
- May 4 â Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
- August 28 â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832), German writer
- December 15 â James Graeme (died 1772), Scottish poet
- December 25 â Samuel Jackson Pratt (died 1814), English poet and writer
- Undated â Wang Yun (died 1819), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing dynasty
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 22 â Matthew Concanen (born 1701), Irish-born English poet and writer
- February 20 â Usher Gahagan, Irish-born Latin scholar, poet and coiner, hanged
- May â Samuel Boyse (born 1702/3), Irish poet
- June 18 â Ambrose Philips (born 1674), English poet and politician
- August 13 â Johann Elias Schlegel (born 1719), German critic and poet
