1757 in poetry
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Events

• William Whitehead made British Poet Laureate after Thomas Gray refuses it
• Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford

Works published

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

Other languages

• J. J. Bodmer, editor, publishes portions of the Nibelunglied: "The Revenge of Kriemheld" and "The Lament Over the Heroes of Etzel"¹

Births

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

• William Blake
• William Sotheby

Deaths

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

• Mary Barber
• Colley Cibber
• John Dyer, Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1699 or 1700)
• Thomas Edwards

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. ^ 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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