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Events

• William Whitehead made British Poet Laureate after Thomas Gray refuses it
• Thomas Warton appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford

William Whitehead (1715 - 1785) was an English poet and playwright. ... Thomas Gray Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of history at Cambridge University. ... Thomas Warton (January 9, 1728 - May 21, 1790) was an English academic and poet, holder of the title of Poet Laureate from 1785. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ...

Works published

• Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, revised version of a long didactic poem originally published in 1744
• Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
• John Dyer, The Fleece
• Thomas Gray, Odes, including "The Progress of Poesy"
• William Wilkie, Epigoniad

Mark Akenside (November 9, 1721 – June 23, 1770), was an English poet and physician. ... The Pleasures of the Imagination is a long didactic poem by Mark Akenside, first published in 1744. ... Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. ... John Dyer (?1699 - December 15, 1758) was a Welsh poet who wrote in the English language. ... Thomas Gray Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of history at Cambridge University. ... William Wilkie (1721 - 1772), poet, born in Linlithgowshire, son of a farmer, and educated at Edinburgh, entered the Church, and became minister of Ratho, Midlothian, in 1756, and Professor of Natural Philosophy at St. ...

Births

• William Blake
• William Sotheby

William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips. ... William Sotheby (1757 - 1833) was an English poet and translator. ...

Deaths

• Mary Barber
• Colley Cibber
• Thomas Edwards

Colley Cibber, actor, playwright, Poet Laureate, first British actor-manager, and head Dunce of Alexander Popes Dunciad. ... Thomas Edwards was born 7 April 1987 He is 18 years old. ...

See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry