1780 in poetry

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

United Kingdom

 * Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Aragon, Part 1 (complete work first published in The Works of mrs Cowley 1813)
 * George Crabbe, The Candidate, published anonymously in July
 * Herbert Croft, The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980, published anonymously; satirical epitaphs on contemporary public figures
 * Susannah Harrison, Songs in the Night, "By a Young Woman Under Deep Afflictions", the book went into 15 editions by 1823
 * William Hayley, An Essay on History
 * Anna Seward, Elegy on Captain Cook, on James Cook, who died February 13, 1779 in Hawaii

United States

 * John Andre, "Cow-Chace, in Three Cantos, Published on Occasion of the Rebel General Wayne's Attack of the Refugees Block-House on Hudson's river, on Friday the 21st of July, 1780''
 * Joel Barlow, An Elegy on the Late Honorahble Titus Hosmer
 * Samuel Dexter, The Progress of Science
 * Timothy Dwight, attributed, America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies
 * Jonathan Odell, attributed, "The American Times"

Other languages

 * Christoph Martin Wieland, Oberon, Germany

Births
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 * George Croly (died 1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian, and divine
 * Paul Moon James (died 1854), English
 * John Marriott (poet) (died 1825), English clergyman and poet
 * Charles Nodier (died 1844), French philologist, novelist and poet
 * Anna Maria Porter (died 1832), English poet, novelist
 * Walter Watson (poet) (died 1854), Scottish poet and weaver

Deaths
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 * Kristijonas Donelaitis (born 1714), Lithuanian poet
 * George Alexander Stevens (born 1710), English playwright and poet