1760 in poetry

• June–October – James Macpherson makes his first tour of the Scottish Highlands and Islands to seek out traditional Gaelic poetry.{{cite book|authorlink=Magnus Magnusson|first=Magnus|last=Magnusson|title=Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Mainstream|year=2007|orig-year=2006|isbn=978-1-84596-210-4|pages=333-4}}
• October 25 – With the death of King George II of Great Britain, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702, is considered to have ended.

• James Beattie, Original Poems and Translations{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• John Cleland, The Times!, Volume 1, a verse satire
• George Cockings, War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah, a 28-page poem supporting British generals; the poem would be republished three more times by 1765; English Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-618-16821-7}}, retrieved via Google Books
• George Colman, the elder, and Robert Lloyd, Two Odes, Part 1: "To Obscurity", Part 2: "To Oblivion", parodying Thomas Gray
• John Delap, Elegies
• Jupiter Hammon, An Evening Thought, the first poem published by an African American in English Colonial America; printed as a broadside; the poem's meter was common in Great Awakening sermons and African American a cappella hymns
• Robert Lloyd:
• The Actor, published anonymously, a popular poem of its time
• The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
• James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/320 320]}}
• James Scott, Heaven: A vision, Seatonian Prize winner
• John Scott, Four Elegies: Descriptive and Moral, published anonymously
• Anne Steele, published under the name "Theodosia", Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, two volumes; she donated her earnings from the book to charity, Colonial AmericaDavis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yqi0x7BEvCoC&pg=PR11&dq=Timeline+poetry&ei=alWOSayyBZm8zgSR0ZHfDQ#PPA10,M1 Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History], Oxford University Press US, 1996

{{ISBN|978-0-19-509053-6}}, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009

• The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-book, with "Little Boy Blue"

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 6 – Richard Polwhele, English clergyman, poet and topographer (died 1838)
• March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish hostess of a salon, poet and painter
• March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828)
• May 10
• Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (died 1826)
• Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French poet, composer (died 1836)
• October 26 – Maria Petronella Woesthoven, Dutch poet (died 1830)

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 14 – Isaac Hawkins Browne (born 1705), English poet
• May 9 – Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (born 1700), German
• Date unknown – Bharatchandra Ray (born 1712), Bengali and Sanskrit poet and song composer

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