1751 in poetry

1751 in poetry

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Events

* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the second year in a row. He will also win the prize in 1753 and 1755.

Works published

* Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard" a literary sensation published in February by Robert Dodsley

Births

* Henrietta Battier (?)
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan
* February 20 — Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (died 1826)

Deaths

* John Bancks
* Philip Doddridge

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry


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