1778 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1768 . 1769 . 1770 . 1771 . 1772 . 1773 . 1774 ...; 1775 1776 1777 -1778- 1779 1780 1781; ... 1782 . 1783 . 1784 . 1785 . 1786 . 1787 . 1788 ... In literature: 1775 1776 1777 -1778- 1779 1780 1781
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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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John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen Sonnets^[1]
William Combe, The Auction^[1]
George Ellis, writing under the pen name "Sir Gregory Gander", Poetical Tales^[1]
William Hayley, A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter, published anonymously; addressed to George Romney^[1]
Vicesimus Knox, Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists, a critical essay^[2]
John Scott, Moral Eclogues, published anonymously^[1]
Percival Stockdale, Inquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular Defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope^[2]
John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers^[1]

Joel Barlow, The Prospect of Peace^[3]
William Billings, Chester^[3]
Francis Hopkinson:
- "The Battle of the Kegs", United States^[4]
- "Date Obolum Bellisario"^[3]
- "The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat"^[3]

Ippolit Bogdanovich, Dushenka, a long poem and his best-known work, Russia
Johannes Ewald, Kong Christian stod ved höjen Mast ("King Christian Stood by the Lofty mast"), a popular song in his melodrama The Fishermen, which later became the Danish national anthem (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later translated it into English)^[5]

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

April 10 – William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer essayist and critic
August 22 – James Kirke Paulding (died 1860), American novelist, poet, and a United States Secretary of the Navy;^[6] a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed
September 9 – Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
December 17 – Sir Humphry Davy (died 1829) English chemist and inventor

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

Augustus Montagu Toplady (born 1740), Anglican clergyman, poet and hymn-writer
Voltaire (born 1694), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist, and philosopher

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 50, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
↑ Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 178, Dial Press, 1938, New York
↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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