1760 in poetry

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

Events

 * June–October – James Macpherson makes his first tour of the Scottish Highlands and Islands to seek out traditional Gaelic poetry.
 * October 25 – With the death of King George II of Great Britain, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702, is considered to have ended.

Works published

 * James Beattie, Original Poems and Translations
 * John Cleland, The Times!, Volume 1, a verse satire
 * George Cockings, War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah, a 28-page poem supporting British generals; the poem would be republished three more times by 1765; English Colonial America
 * George Colman, the elder, and Robert Lloyd, Two Odes, Part 1: "To Obscurity", Part 2: "To Oblivion", parodying Thomas Gray
 * John Delap, Elegies
 * Jupiter Hammon, An Evening Thought, the first poem published by an African American in English Colonial America; printed as a broadside; the poem's meter was common in Great Awakening sermons and African American a cappella hymns
 * Robert Lloyd:
 * The Actor, published anonymously, a popular poem of its time
 * The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
 * James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
 * James Scott, Heaven: A vision, Seatonian Prize winner
 * John Scott, Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral, published anonymously
 * Anne Steele, published under the name "Theodosia", Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, two volumes; she donated her earnings from the book to charity, Colonial America
 * The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 6 – Richard Polwhele, English clergyman, poet and topographer (died 1838)
 * March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish hostess of a salon, poet and painter
 * March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)
 * May 10
 * Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (died 1826)
 * Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French poet, composer (died 1836)
 * October 26 – Maria Petronella Woesthoven, Dutch poet (died 1830)

Deaths
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 * February 14 – Isaac Hawkins Browne (born 1705), English poet
 * May 9 – Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (born 1700), German
 * Date unknown – Bharatchandra Ray (born 1712), Bengali and Sanskrit poet and song composer