1749 in poetry

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United Kingdom

 * John Brown, On Liberty
 * William Collins:
 * Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson, James Thomson died in August 1748
 * "The Passions"
 * Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Beauty, published anonymously
 * Joseph Dumbleton, "A Rhapsody on Rum", a popular, solemn poem by a Southern newspaper versifier describing how rum destroys a drinker; first published in the ' 'South Carolina Gazette' ' and reprinted in newspapers throughout English Colonial America
 * Aaron Hill, Gideon; or, The Patriot
 * Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitated
 * Henry Jones, Poems on Several Occasions
 * William Mason, Isis: An elegy
 * Gilbert West, Odes of Pindar

Other

 * Joseph Green, "Entertainment for a Winter's Evening," a satirical poem about Boston's first Masonic procession; published in Boston, Colonial America
 * Ewald von Kleist, Spring; Germany
 * Anonymous, Fuqek Nitħaddet Malta ("I am talking about you, Malta"), Malta, approximate date

Births
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 * April 19 – Ōta Nanpo (大田 南畝), the most oft-used pen name of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
 * May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
 * August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832), German writer
 * December 15 – James Graeme (died 1772), Scottish poet
 * December 25 – Samuel Jackson Pratt (died 1814), English poet and writer
 * Undated – Wang Yun (died 1819), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing dynasty

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 22 – Matthew Concanen (born 1701), Irish-born English poet and writer
 * February 20 – Usher Gahagan, Irish-born Latin scholar, poet and coiner, hanged
 * May – Samuel Boyse (born 1702/3), Irish poet
 * June 18 – Ambrose Philips (born 1674), English poet and politician
 * August 13 – Johann Elias Schlegel (born 1719), German critic and poet