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

Events[]

Works published in English[]

Colonial America[]

  • John Dickinson, "A Song for American Freedom (Liberty Song)"[1]
  • Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, "The Dream of the Patriotic Philosophical Farmer", political verse advocating an American embargo on British goods, Colonial America[2]
  • Milcah Martha Moore, "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768", Colonial America[2]
  • Phillis Wheatley writes "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty," in which she praised George III for repealing the Stamp Act.[3] Wheatley would later become a strong supporter of the American Revolution.
  • "The Liberty Song" appears on July 16 in the Boston Gazette, called "probably the first American patriotic song"[4]

United Kingdom[]

Other languages[]

  • Ephraim Luzzato, Ele Bene Hane'urim ("These Are the Sons of One's Youth"), Hebrew poetry published in London in an edition of 100 copies; more than 50 poems, mostly sonnets in quantitative-syllabic meters; many subsequent editions and influential among Hebrew poets of the Haskalah ("Enlightenment") movement in the 19th century.[6]

Births[]

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

  • William Shepherd (poet)
  • November 18 – Zacharias Werner, German religious poet (died 1823)

Deaths[]

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

  • August 17 (N. S.) – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (born 1703)
  • December 20 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (born 1692)
Also
  • Thomas Mozeen

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. โ†‘ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  2. โ†‘ 2.0 2.1 Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
  3. โ†‘ Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology by Hilda L. Smith, Indiana University Press, 2000, page 123.
  4. โ†‘ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  5. โ†‘ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  6. โ†‘ Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 132, Penguin, 1981, ISBN 978-0-14-042197-2

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