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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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Works published[]

United Kingdom[]

  • 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]

United States[]

  • 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]

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Births[]

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

Deaths[]

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

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. 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
  2. Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 349, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
  3. Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 319, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
  4. 4.0 4.1 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  5. France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 456, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
  6. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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