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List of years in poetry(table)

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[edit]

  • March 1 (Saint David's Day) – Welsh ship's surgeon David Samwell, on board HMS Resolution in the Pacific Ocean on the second voyage of James Cook, writes a penillion.

Works published[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

  • Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published February 8 (see also Tyrwhitt, A Vindication 1782)[1]
  • William Combe:
    • The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham[1]
    • The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly[1]
  • Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously[1]
  • William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison[1]
  • William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously[1]
  • Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition[1]
  • Paul Whitehead, Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions[1]

United States[edit]

  • Anonymous, Song: made on the taking of General Burgoyne, a broadside of 21 four-line verses, published with no information on the place or printer[2]
  • Anonymous ("H. I."), Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all rebellion's (sic), "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pages[3]
  • Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at Sinai[4]
  • Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad"[4]

Other[edit]

  • Solomon Gessner, works, German-language, Switzerland; in two volumes, published this year and in 1777
  • Pierre Le Tourneur, Poésies galliques, translation into French from the original English of James Macpherson's Ossian poems[5]

Births[edit]

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

  • January 27 – Lukijan Mušicki (died 1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
  • March 14 – John Blair Linn (died 1804), American[6]
  • July 27 – Thomas Campbell (died 1844), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs

Deaths[edit]

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

  • January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator, editor and composer
  • February 3 – Hugh Kelly (born 1739), Irish poet and dramatist
  • March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
  • August 26 – Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
  • September 24 (bur.) – James Fortescue (born 1716), English
  • October 12 (October 1 O.S.) – Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and dramatist
  • December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
  • Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
  • Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German

See also[edit]

  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature
  • 18th century in poetry
  • 18th century in literature
  • French literature of the 18th century
  • Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
  • List of years in poetry
  • Poetry

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. ^ Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 349, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
  3. ^ Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 319, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
  4. ^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  5. ^ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 456, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
  6. ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009