1769 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1759 . 1760 . 1761 . 1762 . 1763 . 1764 . 1765 ...; 1766 1767 1768 -1769- 1770 1771 1772; ... 1773 . 1774 . 1775 . 1776 . 1777 . 1778 . 1779 ... In literature: 1766 1767 1768 -1769- 1770 1771 1772
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, The Siege of Jerusalem
Thomas Chatterton:
- Elinoure and Juga, the first of his "Rowley Poems," published in Town and Country Magazine in May
- Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769^[1]
Richard Hurd, Ancient and Modern Scots Songs
John Ogilvie, Paradise, published anonymously^[1]
Clara Reeve, Original Poems on several Occasions^[1]
Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom, published anonymously^[1]

Jacques Delille, verse translation of Virgil's Georgics from the original Latin into French; the translation led to the author's award of the chair of Latin poetry at the Collège de France and membership in the Académie Française in 1774^[2]
Basílio da Gama, O Uraguai, an epic Brazilian poem
Jean-François, marquis de Saint-Lambert, Saisons, modeled on Thomson's Seasons^[3]
Martin Wieland, Musarion, Germany^[4]

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

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

November 27 – Kamo no Mabuchi 賀茂真淵 (born 1697), Japanese Edo period poet and philologist
December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (born 1715), German poet

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 226, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
↑ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 734, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
↑ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
↑ "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). / Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. / VII. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson. / Bibliography." retrieved February 10, 2009

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