1766 in poetry

• German poet and critic Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg begins publication of his Briefe über Merkwürdigkeiten der Litteratur in which he formulates the literary principles of Sturm und Drang. ==Works published==

• Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards • John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral • Charles Jenner, Poems • Thomas Letchworh, "A Morning and Evening's Meditation; or, A Descant on the Times", English, Colonial America • Henry James Pye, Beauty • Anna Williams, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 3 - Nguyễn Du (died 1820), Vietnamese poet • April 27 - Vasily Pushkin (died 1830), Russian poet • October 11 - Nólsoyar Páll (lost at sea c.1808), Faroese merchant and poet • December 3 - Robert Bloomfield (died 1823), English "ploughboy poet" • Maharaja Chandu Lal (died 1845), Indian Urdu- and Persian-language poet and politician • Martha Llwyd (died 1845), Welsh poet and hymnodist ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • September 23 - John Brown (born 1715), English clergyman, essayist and poet • c. November - Catherine Jemmat, née Yeo (born c.1714), English memoirist and anthologist • December 12 - Johann Christoph Gottsched (born 1700), German critic • December 24 - James Grainger (born c.1721), Scottish-born doctor, poet and translator, of "West Indian fever" in Saint Kitts • Robert Andrews (born 1723), English Presbyterian minister, poet and translator, insane • Hazin Lahiji (born 1692), Persian poet and scholar ==See also==