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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

March — American poet Phillis Wheatley, visits with General George Washington for half an hour in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after sending him the previous October a poem written in his honor. A former slave, she was a strong supporter of independence during the American Revolution. The poem was published March 26 in the Virginia Gazette^[1]

James Beattie, Poems on Several Occasions^[2]
Richard Graves, Euphrosyne; or, Amusements on the Road of Life^[2]
David Herd, editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, anthology^[2]
William Mickle, translator, The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India, translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camoens^[2]
Hannah More, Sir Eldred of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock^[2]
Jonathan Richardson, Morning Thoughts; or, Poetical Meditations, Moral, Divine and Miscellaneous^[2]
John Scott, Amwell^[2]
Augustus Montague Toplady, Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship^[2]
William Whitehead, Variety, published anonymously^[2]

Johannes Ewald, a funeral ode on the occasion of the death of Frederik V; Denmark^[3]
Basilio da Gama, Os Campos Elíseos ("The Elysian Fields"), on the fine arts; Brazil^[4]
Vincenzo Monti, La visione di Ezechiello, Italy
Jonathan Odell, "A Birthday Song", United States^[5]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

April 17 – Jean-François Roger (died 1842), French poet and politician
April 21 (bapt.) – Ann Griffiths (died 1805), Welsh hymn-writer
July 18 – John Struthers (died 1853), Scottish poet
September 21 – John Fitchett (died 1838), English epic poet
November 16 – Mary Matilda Betham (died 1852), English diarist, scholar and poet
year not certain – Charles Newton^[6]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 26 – Evan Lloyd (born 1734), Welsh satirical poet and clergyman
June 13 – Elizabeth Scott (born 1708), British-born, Colonial American poet and hymnwriter
August 28? (bur.) – John Edwards (Sion y Potlau) (born 1699?), Welsh poet
date not known – George Smith (born 1713), British
Jeanne-Catherine Van Goethem (born 1720), Flemish poet

^ Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, pp 36-37
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 178, Dial Press, 1938, New York
^ ""Basílio da Gama/Bibliografia"]". The Academia Brasilia Letros. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2009.
^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ ""The Book of Eighteenth Century Verse"". "Romantic Circles" website of the University of Maryland. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2008.