1756 in poetry

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Events

• Starting this year, Christopher Smart is confined in St. Luke's Hospital, an asylum, after developing a religious mania. Among other things, he had been stopping strangers in Hyde Park and asking them to kneel down and pray for him. Samuel Johnson visited him and thought that he ought to have been at large. He once said, "I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else." During Smart's confinement he conceived the idea of the poem, A Song to David.

Works published

United Kingdom

• Jacob Duche, "Pennsylvania: A Poem", English, Colonial America^[1]
• Samuel Tilden, Tilden's Miscellaneous Poems, on Divers Occasions, Chiefly to Animate and Rouse the Soldiers, English, Colonial America, posthumously published^[1]
• John Warton, Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
• William Mason, Odes

Other

• Solomon Gessner, Switzerland, German-language:
  • Idyllen, versions of the work eventually appeared in English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Czech
  • Inkel and Yanko, a reworked story borrowed from The Spectator (No. 11, March 13, 1711)

Births

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

• Edward Rushton
• Jane Cave (by this year)

Deaths

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• Stephen Duck (born 1705), English poet, by suicide

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

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