1757 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- William Whitehead made British Poet Laureate after Thomas Gray refuses it
- Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford
[edit] Works published
[edit] English language
- Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744
- Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
- John Dyer, The Fleece
- Thomas Gray, Odes, including "The Progress of Poesy"
- William Wilkie, Epigoniad
[edit] Other languages
- J. J. Bodmer, editor, publishes portions of the Nibelunglied: "The Revenge of Kriemheld" and "The Lament Over the Heroes of Etzel"[1]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Mary Barber
- Colley Cibber
- John Dyer, Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1699 or 1700)
- Thomas Edwards
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Google Books online version of Gayley, Charles Mills, The Classic Myths in English Literature and Art, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0819603201 Retrieved March 22, 2008
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