1756 in poetry

Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Isaac Bickerstaffe, Leucothoe, published anonymously
• Francies Brooke, Virginia: A tragedy, a drama that contains poems
• Richard Owen Cambridge, An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room, a parody of Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard
• Thomas Cole, The Arbour; or, The Rural Philosopher, published anonymously
• William Kenrick, Epistles to Lorenzo, published anonymously
• William Mason, Odes
• Edward Moore, Poems, Fables and Plays
• Christopher Pitt, Poems Together with The Jordan, "By the celebrated translator of Virgil's Aeneid", according to the book
• Christopher Smart:
• * Hymn to the Supreme Being
• * Translator, The Works of Horace
• Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Volume 1, criticism

English">English poetry">English, Colonial America">American poetry">Colonial America

• Jacob Duche, "Pennsylvania: A Poem", English, Colonial America
• Samuel Tilden, Tilden's Miscellaneous Poems, on Divers Occasions, Chiefly to Animate and Rouse the Soldiers, English, Colonial America, posthumously published

Other

• Solomon Gessner, Switzerland, German-language:
• * Idyllen, versions of the work eventually appeared in English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Czech
• * Inkel und Yanko, a reworked story borrowed from The Spectator
• Voltaire, Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne, on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; 180 lines, composed in December, 1755; France

Births

• April - William Gifford, English satiric poet and literary editor
• July 25 - Elizabeth Hamilton, Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist
• November 13 - Edward Rushton, English poet, bookseller and abolitionist

Deaths

• March 26 - Gilbert West, English poet
• c. April 1 - Stephen Duck, English "thresher poet", by suicide
• Frehat Bat Avraham, Jewish Poet