1756 in poetry

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United Kingdom

 * Isaac Bickerstaffe, Leucothoe, published anonymously
 * Francies Brooke, Virginia: A tragedy, a drama that contains poems
 * Richard Owen Cambridge, An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room, a parody of Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard
 * Thomas Cole, The Arbour; or, The Rural Philosopher, published anonymously
 * William Kenrick, Epistles to Lorenzo, published anonymously
 * William Mason, Odes
 * Edward Moore, Poems, Fables and Plays
 * Christopher Pitt, Poems [...] Together with The Jordan, "By the celebrated translator of Virgil's Aeneid", according to the book
 * Christopher Smart:
 * Hymn to the Supreme Being
 * Translator, The Works of Horace (see also Works of Horace, Translated into Verse 1767)
 * Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Volume 1 (Volume 2 published in 1782), criticism

English, Colonial America

 * Jacob Duche, "Pennsylvania: A Poem", English, Colonial America
 * Samuel Tilden, Tilden's Miscellaneous Poems, on Divers Occasions, Chiefly to Animate and Rouse the Soldiers, English, Colonial America, posthumously published

Other

 * Solomon Gessner, Switzerland, German-language:
 * Idyllen, versions of the work eventually appeared in English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Czech (see also a second volume of Idyllen 1772)
 * Inkel und Yanko, a reworked story borrowed from The Spectator (No. 11, March 13, 1711)
 * Voltaire, Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ("Poem on the Lisbon Disaster"), on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; 180 lines, composed in December, 1755; France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April – William Gifford (died 1826), English satiric poet and literary editor
 * July 25 (probable year) – Elizabeth Hamilton (died 1816), Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist
 * November 13 – Edward Rushton (died 1814), English poet, bookseller and abolitionist

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 26 – Gilbert West (born 1703), English poet
 * c. April 1 – Stephen Duck (born 1705), English "thresher poet", by suicide
 * Frehat Bat Avraham, Jewish Poet