Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events
edit- March 1 (Saint David's Day) – Welsh ship's surgeon David Samwell, on board HMS Resolution in the Pacific Ocean on the second voyage of James Cook, writes a penillion.
Works published
edit- 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:
- 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]
Other
edit- 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]
Births
editDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 27 – Lukijan Mušicki (died 1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
- March 14 – John Blair Linn (died 1804), American[6]
- July 27 – Thomas Campbell (died 1844), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
- December 2 – Hendrik Doeff (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese
Deaths
editBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator, editor and composer
- February 3 – Hugh Kelly (born 1739), Irish poet and dramatist
- March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
- August 26 – Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
- September 24 (bur.) – James Fortescue (born 1716), English
- October 12 (October 1 O.S.) – Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and dramatist
- December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
- Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
- Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German
See also
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- 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
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h 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
- ^ a b 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