1766 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
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
- John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral
- Isaac D'Israeli, The Literary Character
- John Freeth, The Political Songster
- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology published this year, although the book states "1767"
- Francis Hopkinson, "A Psalm of Thanksgiving", English, Colonial America
- Charles Jenner, Poems
- Thomas Letchworh, "A Morning and Evening's Meditation; or, A Descant on the Times", English, Colonial America
- Henry James Pye, Beauty
- Anna Williams, ''Miscellanies in Prose and Verse''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 3 - Nguyễn Du, Vietnamese poet
- April 27 - Vasily Pushkin, Russian poet
- October 11 - Nólsoyar Páll, Faroese merchant and poet
- December 3 - Robert Bloomfield, English "ploughboy poet"
- Maharaja Chandu Lal, Indian Urdu- and Persian-language poet and politician
- Martha Llwyd, Welsh poet and hymnodist
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- September 23 - John Brown, English clergyman, essayist and poet
- c. November - Catherine Jemmat, née Yeo, English memoirist and anthologist
- December 12 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German critic
- December 24 - James Grainger, Scottish-born doctor, poet and translator, of "West Indian fever" in Saint Kitts
- Robert Andrews, English Presbyterian minister, poet and translator, insane
- Hazin Lahiji, Persian poet and scholar