1759 in poetry

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Events

• Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena.
• September 12 — Just before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in the Seven Years' War, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) to his officers, adding, "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow".

Works published

• Francis Williams, "Ode to Governor Haldane", the first known published poem by a Jamaican black^[1]
• Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition (criticism)

Births

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

• January 25 – Robert Burns, also known as "Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard of Ayrshire" and, in Scotland, simply "The Bard" (died 1796), Scottish poet and a lyricist, called the national poet of Scotland
• November 10 – Friedrich Schiller (died 1805), German poet and dramatist
• date not known – Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, (died 1846), American^[2]

Deaths

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

• June 12 – William Collins, 37, English poet
• August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (born 1715)
• Martha Brewster (after this year)
• Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (born 1708), English diplomat and satiric poet

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• 18th century in poetry
• Augustan poetry
• Augustan literature

Notes

1. ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
2. ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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