1749 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

Title page of The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson, first published this year

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]

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

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

April 19 – Ōta Nanpo (大田南畝), the most oft-used pen name of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832), German writer
December 15 – James Graeme (died 1772), Scottish poet
December 25 – Samuel Jackson Pratt (died 1814), English poet and writer
Undated – Wang Yun (died 1819), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing dynasty

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7.
^ Gates, Henry Louis Jr (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Civitas Books. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5.
^ Thomas, Calvin (1909). A History of German Literature. New York: D. Appleton & Company. Retrieved 2009-12-14. German literature.

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