1754 in poetry

===United Kingdom=== • Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously • Thomas Denton, Immortality; or, The Consolation of Human Life, published anonymously • Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy • Henry Jones, The Relief; or, Day Thoughts, occasioned by Edward Young's The Complaint 1742 • William Shirley, The Antigonian and Bostonian Beauties: A Poem, English, Colonial America Other • Solomon Gessner, Daphnis, Switzerland, German-language ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March 11 – Juan Meléndez Valdés (died 1817), Spanish • March 24 – Joel Barlow (died 1812), American poet and diplomat • May 23 – William Drennan (died 1820), Irish • June 18 – Anna Maria Lenngren (died 1817), Swedish • August 27 – John Codrington Bampfylde (died 1796), English • September 25 – Thomas Maurice (died 1824), English poet and clergyman • December 24 – George Crabbe (died 1832), English • Earliest likely year – Jane Cave (died 1812), Welsh ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 28 – Ludvig Holberg (born 1684), Danish/Norwegian poet and playwright • February 1 – Elizabeth Tollet (born 1694), English • March 25 – William Hamilton (born 1704), Scottish Jacobite • October 28 – Friedrich von Hagedorn (born 1708), German • Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill (born 1691), Irish ==See also==