1768 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1768 in poetry

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Events

John Dickinson, "A Song for Freedom (Liberty Song)"^[1]
Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, "The Dream of the Patriotic Philosophical Farmer", political verse advocating an American embargo on British goods, Colonial America^[2]
Milcah Martha Moore, "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768", Colonial America^[2]
Phillis Wheatley writes "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty," in which she praises George III for repealing the Stamp Act.^[3] Wheatley would later become a strong supporter of the American Revolution.
"The Liberty Song" appears on July 16 in the Boston Gazette, called "probably the first American patriotic song"^[4]

Isaac Hawkins Browne, the elder, Poems Upon Various Subjects, Latin and English, edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne, the younger^[5]
Thomas Gray, Poems by Mr Gray, including "The Fatal Sisters", "The Descent of Odin", "The Triumphs of Owen" but not "A Long Story"^[5]
Richard Jago, Labour and Genius; or, The Mill-Stream, and the Cascade^[5]
Lady Mary Montagu, Poetical Works^[5]
Henry James Pye, Elegies on Different Occasions, published anonymously^[5]
Alexander Ross, The Fortunate Sheperdess^[5]
Christopher Smart, The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ^[5]
William Wilkie, Fables^[5]

Ephraim Luzzato, Ele Bene Hane'urim ("These Are the Sons of One's Youth"), Hebrew poetry published in London in an edition of 100 copies; more than 50 poems, mostly sonnets in quantitative-syllabic meters; many subsequent editions and influential among Hebrew poets of the Haskalah ("Enlightenment") movement in the 19th century.^[6]

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

October 11 – William Shepherd, English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer (died 1847)
November 18 – Zacharias Werner, German religious poet (died 1823)
Wang Zhenyi, Chinese Qing dynasty female poet and astronomer (died 1797)

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

^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ ^a ^b Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
^ Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology by Hilda L. Smith, Indiana University Press, 2000, page 123.
^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 132, Penguin, 1981, ISBN 978-0-14-042197-2

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