1750 in poetry

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## Events

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* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for "On the Attributes of the Supreme Being"

## Works published

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* William Collins, The Passions: An ode[1]
* Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Moartial Virtue, published anonymously[1]
* Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life, published anonymously; has also been attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; published this year, although the book states "1751"[1]
* Mary Jones, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse[1]
* Charlotte Lennox, The Art of Coquetry
* James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions, posthumous
* Thomas Warton, the younger, New-market, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1751"
* Edward Young, The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, published anonymously; the collected edition of Nights, Books 1-9 (see The Complaint 1742)[1]

## Births

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* April 24 - John Trumbull (died 1831), American poet[2]
* June 19 - Lemuel Hopkins (died 1801), American[2] poet and satirist[3]
* July 30 - John Taylor (died 1826), English businessman, poet and Unitarian hymn writer
* September 5 - Robert Fergusson (died 1774), Scottish poet
* September 18 - Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa (died 1791), Spanish poet
* October 31 - Leonor de Almeida Portugal (died 1839), Portuguese poet
* November 7 - Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (died 1819), German poet
* December 8 - Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay (died 1825), Scottish poet and author of the ballad "Auld Robin Gray"

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* February 8 - Aaron Hill (born 1685), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
* March 20 - Johann Sigismund Scholze (born 1705), German
* March 21 - Mehetabel Wesley Wright (born 1697), English
* July 29 - Laetitia Pilkington (born c. 1709), Anglo-Irish poet and memoirist
* John Winstanley (born 1678?), Anglo-Irish

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## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ a b Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
3. ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

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