1754 in poetry

This article covers 1754 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published

Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously
Thomas Denton, Immortality; or, The Consolation of Human Life, published anonymously
John Duncombe, The Feminiad: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year. The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write.
Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy
Henry Jones, The Relief; or, Day Thoughts, occasioned by Edward Young's The Complaint 1742
Jonathan Swift, The Works of Jonathan Swift, published posthumously; edited by John Hawkesworth; five more volumes were published from 1764 through 1765 and six volumes of letters from 1766 through 1768
Thomas Warton the younger, Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, criticism
William Whitehead, ''Poems on Several Occasions''

John Mercer, The Dinwiddianae Poems and Prose, begins on November 4, a satiric series using puns, mock-heroics and invective attacking the policies of Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie and General Edward Braddock; English Colonial America
William Shirley, The Antigonian and Bostonian Beauties: A Poem, English, Colonial America

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