1766 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• German poet and critic Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg begins publication of his Briefe über Merkwürdigkeiten der Litteratur in which he formulates the literary principles of Sturm und Drang.

Works published

• Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards^[1]
• John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral^[1]
• Isaac D'Israeli, The Literary Character
• John Freeth, The Political Songster^[1]
• Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology published this year, although the book states "1767"^[1]
• Francis Hopkinson, "A Psalm of Thanksgiving", English, Colonial America^[2]
• Charles Jenner, Poems^[1]
• Thomas Letchworh, "A Morning and Evening's Meditation; or, A Descant on the Times", English, Colonial America^[2]
• Henry James Pye, Beauty^[1]
• Anna Williams, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse^[1]

Births

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

• April 27 - Vasily Pushkin (died 1830), Russian poet
• December 3 - Robert Bloomfield (died 1823), English "ploughboy poet"
• Nguyễn Du (died 1820), Vietnamese poet
• Maharaja Chandu Lal (died 1845), Indian Urdu- and Persian-language poet and politician
• Martha Llwyd (died 1845), Welsh poet and hymnodist

Deaths

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

• September 23 - John Brown (born 1715), English clergyman, essayist and poet
• c. November - Catherine Jemmat, née Yeo (born c.1714), English memoirist and anthologist
• December 12 - Johann Christoph Gottsched (born 1700), German critic
• December 24 - James Grainger (born c.1721), Scottish-born doctor, poet and translator, of "West Indian fever" in Saint Kitts
• Robert Andrews (born 1723), English Presbyterian minister, poet and translator, insane
• Hazin Lahiji (born 1692), Persian poet and scholar

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press