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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 publishedEdit
Colonial AmericaEdit
- Anna Young Smith, published under the pen name "Sylvia", "An Elegy to the Memory of the America Volunteers", published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Colonial America[1]
- Philip Freneau:
- John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)[2]
United KingdomEdit
- Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse[4]
- George Crabbe, Inebriety, published anonymously[4]
- Hugh Downman, The Drama[4]
- Thomas Gray, The Poems of Mr. Gray, to which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, M.A., Annotated letters of Thomas Gray, comments by Mason on the poems; York: A. Ward; criticism and biography[5]
- Edward Jerningham, The Fall of Mexico[4]
- Mary Robinson, Poems[4]
- Richard Savage, The Works of Richard Savage, edited by Samuel Johnson, with a life of Savage by Johnson, later reprinted in Johnson's Prefaces [...] to the Works of the English Poets 1779 (see also An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage 1744)[4]
BirthsEdit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Charles Lamb (died 1834), English/Welsh essayist and poet
- Walter Savage Landor (died 1864), English writer and poet
- Matthew Gregory Lewis (died 1818), English novelist and dramatist
- John Leyden (died 1811), British orientalist
- Joseph Blanco White (died 1841), Spanish theologian and poet
- Jane Austen (died 1817), English novelist and poet
DeathsEdit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- October 2 – Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, 千代尼 (born 1703), Japanese poet of the Edo period and a prominent haiku poet (a woman)
See alsoEdit
- 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
NotesEdit
- ↑ 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 2.2 Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Web page titled "Selected Bibliography: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)" "By Alan T. McKenzie, Purdue University, and B. Eugene McCarthy, College of the Holy Cross / Last revised 14 December 2001", retrieved July 25, 2009. Archived 2009-07-29.
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