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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

Events

• Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena.
• September 12 — Just before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in the Seven Years' War, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) to his officers, adding, "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow".

Works published

• Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition (criticism)

Births

• Robert Burns
• Friedrich Schiller, German poet and dramatist (died 1805)

Deaths

• June 12 — William Collins, 37, English poet
• August 24 — Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (born 1715)
• Martha Brewster (after this year)
• Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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