1758 in poetry

Events

• Christopher Smart writes "Jubilate Agno", only published in 1939

  Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England
• John Gilbert Cooper, The Call of Aristippus
• Robert Dodsley:
• * Cleone: A tragedy, verse drama performed in December; the work also contains the author's poem "Melpomene", on the sublime
• * Collection of Poems, volumes five and six
• James Macpherson, The Highlander
• Thomas Parnell, Posthumous Works

  English">English poetry">English, Colonial America">American poetry">Colonial America

• Thomas Prince, The Psalms, Hymns, & spiritual Songs of the Old and new Testaments, English, Colonial America
• Annis Boudinot Stockton, "To the Honorable Colonel Peter Schuyler" published in New-York Mercury and New American Magazine; her first published poem; Colonial America

  Other

• Anica Bošković, Dijalog Serbian published in Venice
• Solomon Gessner, Der Tod Abels, Switzerland, German-language work akin to an idyllic pastoral

  Oliver Goldsmith's "poetical scale"

Births

• February 3
• * Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright
• * Valentin Vodnik, Carniolan Slovene poet, writer and priest
• March 15 - Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet
• April 6 - Sir George Dallas, 1st Baronet, English politician and poet
• April 30 - Jane West, born Iliffe, publishing under the pen names "Prudentia Homespun" and "Mrs. West", English novelist, poet, playwright and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts
• December - Mary Leadbeater, Irish poet and writer
• Also:
• * Ryōkan 良寛, born Eizō Yamamoto, Japanese waka poet, calligrapher, Buddhist monk and often a hermit
• * year uncertain - Joseph Fawcett, English Presbyterian minister and poet

  Deaths

• January 1 - Johann Friedrich von Cronegk, German dramatist, poet and essayist
• January 7 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet
• July 15 - Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet