1753 in Poetry - Works Published

Works Published

• John Armstrong, Taste: An epistle to a young critic
• Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, compiled mostly by Robert Shiels with added material and revisions by Cibber (prose biography)
• Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Benevolence, published anonymously
• Robert Dodsley, Public Virtue
• Thomas Francklin, Translation: A poem
• Richard Gifford, Contemplation: A poem, published anonymously
• Thomas Gray, "Hymn to Adversity"
• Henry Jones, Merit: A poem
• William Kenrick, The Whole Duty of Woman, published anonymously
• John Ogilvie, The Day of Judgment, published anonymously
• Christopher Pitt, and others, The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English, for Pitt, publication was posthumous
• Christopher Smart, The Hilliad: an epic poem, a satire on Sir John Hill (1716?–1775), editor of the British Magazine, sparked by some of Hill's criticisms in the August 1752 issue of The Impertinent (the only issue published) of Smart's Poems on Several Occasions that year
• William Smith, A Poem on Visiting the Academy of Philadelphia, June 1753, Smith had been invited to visit by Benjamin Franklin; the academy would later become the University of Pennsylvania; Smith would later be hired as an instructor and became the first provost after he helped change the academy into the College of Philadelphia'
• John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
• George Whitefield, Hymns for Social Worship, an anthology