1766 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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.

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]

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

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^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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