Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 1 (disputed — see explanation here) - Gottfried August Bürger (died 1794), German poet
- June 14 – Henry Alline (died 1784), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
- October 13 – Henry Livingston, Jr. (died 1828), American farmer and poet; his family later claimed he, not Clement Moore, wrote "The Night Before Christmas"
- Also:
- Ludwig Christoph Holty (died 1776), German poet and lyricist
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, (died 1816), American writer, poet, lawyer, judge, and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice
Read more about this topic: 1748 In Poetry
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)