1750 in poetry

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Events

 * Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for "On the Attributes of the Supreme Being"

Works published

 * William Collins, The Passions: An ode
 * Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Moartial Virtue, published anonymously
 * Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life, published anonymously; has also been attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; published this year, although the book states "1751"
 * Mary Jones, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
 * Charlotte Lennox, The Art of Coquetry
 * James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions, posthumous
 * Thomas Warton, the younger, New-market, published anonymously this year, although the book states "1751"
 * Edward Young, The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, published anonymously; the collected edition of Nights, Books 1–9 (see The Complaint 1742)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 24 – John Trumbull (died 1831), American poet
 * June 19 – Lemuel Hopkins (died 1801), American poet and satirist
 * July 30 – John Taylor (died 1826), English businessman, poet and Unitarian hymn writer
 * September 5 – Robert Fergusson (died 1774), Scottish poet
 * September 18 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa (died 1791), Spanish poet
 * October 31 – Leonor de Almeida Portugal (died 1839), Portuguese poet
 * November 7 – Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (died 1819), German poet
 * December 8 – Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay (died 1825), Scottish poet and author of the ballad "Auld Robin Gray"

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 8 – Aaron Hill (born 1685), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
 * March 20 – Johann Sigismund Scholze (born 1705), German
 * March 21 – Mehetabel Wesley Wright (born 1697), English
 * July 29 – Laetitia Pilkington (born c. 1709), Anglo-Irish poet and memoirist
 * John Winstanley (born 1678?), Anglo-Irish