1784 in poetry

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

Events

 * About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature (including poetry) and music, which began in the late 1760s. 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".

United Kingdom

 * Anonymous, Rolliad
 * Mary Alcock, The Air Balloon
 * Thomas Chatterton, A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, poetry and prose (see also, Miscellanies 1778), published posthumously (died 1770)
 * Richard Jago, Poems, Moral and Descriptive
 * Anna Seward, Louisa: A poetical novel
 * Charlotte Turner Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Essays (see also Elegaic Sonnets 1797)
 * Helen Maria Williams:
 * An Ode on the Peace
 * Peru

Other languages

 * Évariste de Parny, Élégies, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 31 – Bernard Barton (died 1849), Quaker poet
 * July 27 - Denis Davydov (died 1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
 * October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
 * November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.
 * December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842), Scottish poet and author

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet, died in poverty in 1784 while working on a second book of poetry, which has now been lost (born 1753)
 * Also:
 * Henry Alline (born 1748), American-born Canadian preacher and hymnist.
 * Le Quy Don, Vietnamese (born 1726), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
 * Samuel Johnson (born 1709), English poet, author, critic
 * Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (born 1709), French poet
 * Alexander Ross (poet)