| List of years in poetry (table) |
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[]
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Works published[]
Frontspiece, book of poems by Ambrosius Stub
Colonial America[]
- Jane Dunlap, Poems upon Several Sermons Preached by the Rev'd George Whitefield, Colonial Massachusetts[1]
- Levi Frisbie, "A Poem on the Rise and Progress of Moor's Indian Charity School", English, Colonial America[2]
- John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Buckingham St. John", English, Colonial America[2]
United Kingdom[]
- James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book 1, (Book 2: The English Garden 1774,[3] in 4 volumes 1771–1781)
- James Cawthorn, Poems[3]
- John Langhorne, The Fables of Flora[3]
- Henry Mackenzie, Pursuits of Happiness, published anonymously after a stay in London; Scottish[4]
- Thomas Percy, The Hermit of Warkworth, published anonymously[3]
- Henry James Pye, The Triumph of Fashion[3]
- John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, published in 32 volumes (1771–1774)[3] by the Methodist divine and hymn writer
Other languages[]
- Ambrosius Stub, Arier og andre poetiske Stykker ("Arier and Other Poetic Works"), edited by T.S. Heiberg; Denmark, posthumous
- Martin Wieland, New Amadis, a comic poem in 18 cantos; Germany[5]
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 7 – William Wordsworth (died 1850), English poet
- Also
- Thomas John Dibdin (died 1841), English dramatist and song-writer
- Thomas Green Fessenden, (died 1837), American[6]
- Liang Desheng (died 1847), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
- James Montgomery (died 1854), English editor and poet
- Sir Walter Scott (died 1832), Scottish historical novelist and poet
- Sydney Smith (died 1845), English writer and Anglican clergyman
- Dorothy Wordsworth (died 1855), English author, poet and diarist
Deaths[]
Tomb of Thomas Gray in Stoke Poges
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 30 – Thomas Gray (born 1716), English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous 1750 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- August 19 – Daniel Schiebeler (born 1741), German writer and poet
- December 23 – Johann Friedrich Löwen (born 1727), German poet, intellectual, drama theorist and at one time a confidant of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Also
- Samuel Bowden
- John Gambold
- Christopher Smart (born 1722), English poet
- Tobias Smollett (born 1721), Scottish poet and author
See also[]
- 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[]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Web page titled "Henry Mackenzie", a reprint from an article by William Anderson, in Scottish Nation (1859-66), "3:23-25", retrieved June 28, 2009
- ↑ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
- ↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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