1749 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
• August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832)

• Also:
  • James Graeme
  • Ōta Nampo 大田南畝, the most oft-used pen name of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
  • Samuel Jackson Pratt
  • Wang Yun (died 1819), Chinese poet and playwright during the Qing Dynasty