1777 in poetry

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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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Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published February 8 (see also Tyrwhitt, A Vindication 1782)^[1]
William Combe:
- The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham^[1]
- The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly^[1]
Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously^[1]
William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison^[1]
William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously^[1]
Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition^[1]
Paul Whitehead, Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions^[1]

Anonymous, Song: made on the taking of General Burgoyne, a broadside of 21 four-line verses, published with no information on the place or printer^[2]
Anonymous ("H.I."), Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all rebellion's (sic), "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pages^[3]
Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at Sinai^[4]
Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad"^[4]

Solomon Gessner, works, German-language, Switzerland; in two volumes, published this year and in 1777
Pierre Le Tourneur, Poésies galliques, translation into French from the original English of James Macpherson's Ossian poems^[5]

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

Thomas Campbell (died 1844), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
John Blair Linn (died 1804), American^[6]

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

January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator and editor and composer
December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and playwright
Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 349, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
↑ Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 319, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 456, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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