1760 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- June–October - James Macpherson makes his first tour of the Scottish Highlands and Islands to seek out traditional Gaelic poetry.
- October 25 - With the death of King George II of Great Britain, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702, is considered to have ended.
Works published
- James Beattie, Original Poems and Translations
- John Cleland, The Times!, Volume 1, a verse satire
- George Cockings, War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah, a 28-page poem supporting British generals; the poem would be republished three more times by 1765; English Colonial America
- George Colman, the elder, and Robert Lloyd, Two Odes, Part 1: "To Obscurity", Part 2: "To Oblivion", parodying Thomas Gray
- John Delap, Elegies
- Jupiter Hammon, An Evening Thought, the first poem published by an African American in English Colonial America; printed as a broadside; the poem's meter was common in Great Awakening sermons and African American a cappella hymns
- Robert Lloyd:
- * The Actor, published anonymously, a popular poem of its time
- * The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
- James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
- James Scott, Heaven: A vision, Seatonian Prize winner
- John Scott, Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral, published anonymously
- Anne Steele, published under the name "Theodosia", Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, two volumes; she donated her earnings from the book to charity, Colonial AmericaThe Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 6 - Richard Polwhele, English clergyman, poet and topographer
- March 2 - Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish hostess of a salon, poet and painter
- March 10 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet
- May 10
- * Johann Peter Hebel, German poet
- * Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French poet, composer
- October 26 – Maria Petronella Woesthoven, Dutch poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 14 - Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet
- May 9 - Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, German
- Date unknown - Bharatchandra Ray, Bengali and Sanskrit poet and song composer