1773 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Works published[]

File:Phillis Wheatley frontispiece.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, as illustrated by Scipio Moorhead in the frontispiece to her book Poems on Various Subjects.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Poems^[1]
Thomas Day, The Dying Negro,^[1] Occasioned by the incident, as described in the advertisement published with the poem, about "A black who, a few days before, had run away from his master, and got himself christened, with intent to marry a white woman, his fellow-servant, being taken and sent on board a ship in the Thames, took an opportunity of shooting himself through the head"^[2]; a very popular poem, one of the earliest anti-slavery works of literature in Britain
Robert Fergusson:
- Auld Reikie^[1]
- Poems (see also Poems on Various Subjects 1779)^[1]
Richard Graves, The Love of Order, published anonymously^[1]
Edward Jerningham, Faldoni and Teresa^[1]
George Keate, The Monument in Arcadia^[1]
James Macpherson, translator, The Iliad, from the original Ancient Greek of Homer's Iliad^[1]
William Mason, An Heroic Epistle o Sir William Chambers
Samuel Mather, "The Sacred Minister", English, Colonial America^[3]
Hannah More, A Search after Happinesss, "by a young lady"^[1]
Thomas Scott (of Ipswich), Lyric Poems, Devotional and Moral, the book includes most of the author's poems^[1]
Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, the first book of poetry by an American slave, including "On Being Brought from Africa to America". The book was published in Aldgate, London because publishers in Boston, Massachusetts, had refused to publish the text. Wheatley and her master's son, Nathanial Wheatley, went to London, where Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and the Earl of Dartmouth helped with the publication.
John Wolcot, Persian Love Elegies^[1]

Births[]

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

April 21 – Reginald Heber, (died 1826), English Church of England bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer
May 31 – Ludwig Tieck (died 1853), German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic
November 13 – Robert Treat Paine Jr., (died 1811), American poet and editor; son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence^[4]

Deaths[]

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

March 5 – Philip Francis (born c. 1708), Irish translator of the works of Horace
August 3 – Stanisław Konarski. actual name: Hieronim Konarski (born 1700), Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment

Also

Andrew Brice
John Cunningham (born 1729), Irish
Philip Francis (born 1708), English translator, poet and playwright^[1]
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, also known as Lord Chesterfield (born 1694) British statesman and man of letters
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (born 1709), English statesman and poet^[1]

Notes[]

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Gates, Henry Louis, editor, The Classic Slave Narratives, p 102, Signet Classics, 2002
↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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[cocel-1] 1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

[2] Gates, Henry Louis, editor, The Classic Slave Narratives, p 102, Signet Classics, 2002

[rmlaal-3] Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

[ucapb-4] Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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