1754 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously Thomas Denton, Immortality; or, The Consolation of Human Life, published anonymously John Duncombe, The Feminiad: or, Female Genius, a Poem, which circulated in manuscript before being published this year (a second edition, now called The Feminead, came out in 1757). The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write. Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy Henry Jones, The Relief; or, Day Thoughts, occasioned by Edward Young's The Complaint 1742 Jonathan Swift, The Works of Jonathan Swift, published posthumously; edited by John Hawkesworth; five more volumes were published from 1764 through 1765 and six volumes of letters from 1766 through 1768 Thomas Warton the younger, Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, criticism William Whitehead, Poems on Several Occasions John Mercer, The Dinwiddianae Poems and Prose, begins on November 4 (continues until 1757), a satiric series using puns, mock-heroics and invective attacking the policies of Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie and General Edward Braddock; English Colonial America William Shirley, The Antigonian and Bostonian Beauties: A Poem, English, Colonial America Solomon Gessner, Daphnis, Switzerland, German-language Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 11 – Juan Meléndez Valdés (died 1817), Spanish March 24 – Joel Barlow (died 1812), American poet and diplomat May 23 – William Drennan (died 1820), Irish June 18 – Anna Maria Lenngren (died 1817), Swedish August 27 – John Codrington Bampfylde (died 1796), English September 25 – Thomas Maurice (died 1824), English poet and clergyman December 24 – George Crabbe (died 1832), English Earliest likely year – Jane Cave (died 1812), Welsh Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 28 – Ludvig Holberg (born 1684), Danish/Norwe