1755 in poetry

Events

• Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the fifth time (he won the same prize in 1750; 1751 1752, and 1753
• Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.

  Works published

• Mather Byles, ' 'The Conflagration' ', a long poem in heroic couplets detailing the physical phenomena of Judgment Day, English Colonial America
• John Byrom, Epistle in Defence of Rhyme, published in Roger Comberbach's A Dispute; also published in 1755 under the title The Contest
• George Colman, the elder, and Bonnell Thornton, editors, Poems by Eminent Ladies, an anthology with verse by 18 women poets, including Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Leapor, Anne Finch, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Mary Monck, Lady Mary Chudleigh and Mary Barber
• John Gilbert Cooper, The Tomb of Shakespear
• David Dalrymple, editor, Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem
• Robert Dodsley, fourth volume of Collection of Poems
• Stephen Duck, Caesar's Camp; or, St. George's Hill

  Births

• February 13 - Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter, engraver and poet
• February 21 - Anne Grant, Scottish poet
• March 15 - George Dyer, English classicist and prolific writer
• April - Robert Merry, English poet and dilettante
• April 16 - Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French portrait painter and poet
• October - George Galloway, Scottish poet and playwright
• November 6 - Cynthia Lenige, Frisian Dutch poet

  Deaths

• June 14 - Mary Barber, poet and member of Jonathan Swift's circle
• Vijaya Dasa, Indian devotional poet