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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, [[Irish poetry|Irish]] or [[French poetry|France]]).
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==Events==
==Events==
[[File:Death room robert burns.jpg|right|thumb|The death room of [[Robert Burns]]]]
* July 21 &ndash; Death of the [[Poetry of Scotland|Scottish]] national poet, [[Robert Burns]] ("Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard (of Ayrshire)"), in [[Dumfries]], at the age of 37. His funeral (with honours as a [[military volunteer]]) takes place on July 25 while his wife, [[Jean Armour|Jean]], is in labour with their ninth child together, Maxwell. Burns is at first buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries. The volume of ''The [[Scots Musical Museum]]'' published this year includes his versions of the [[Scots language|Scots]] poem "[[Auld Lang Syne]]" and "[[Charlie Is My Darling (song)|Charlie Is My Darling]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Robert Burns|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=2012-01-26}}</ref>

==Works published in English==


==Works published==
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Mary Matilda Betham]], ''Elegies, and Other Small Poems''<ref name=cocel>Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6</ref>
* [[Mary Matilda Betham]], ''Elegies, and Other Small Poems''<ref name=cocel>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref>
* [[William Lisle Bowles]], ''Hope''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[William Lisle Bowles]], ''Hope''<ref name=cocel/>
* Sir [[James Burges]], ''The Birth and Triumph of Love''<ref name=cocel/>
* Sir [[James Burges]], ''The Birth and Triumph of Love''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]:
* [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]:
** ''Ode on the Departing Year''<ref name=cocel/>
** ''Ode on the Departing Year''<ref name=cocel/>
** ''Poems on Various Subjects''<ref name=cocel/>
** ''[[Poems on Various Subjects]]''<ref name=cocel/> including "[[Lines Written at Shurton Bars]]", the first full publication of "[[Religious Musings]]" and a revised version of "[[Monody on the Death of Chatterton]]"
* [[M. G. Lewis]], published anonymously, ''Village Virtues''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[M. G. Lewis]], published anonymously, ''Village Virtues''<ref name=cocel/>
* Sir [[Walter Scott]], anonymous translation from the [[German poetry|German]] of [[Gottfried August Burger]]'s '' Der Wilde Jager'' and ''Lenora''), ''The Chase, and William and Helen''<ref name=cocel/>
* Sir [[Walter Scott]], ''The Chase, and William and Helen'', translation (published anonymously) from the [[German poetry|German]] of [[Gottfried August Burger]]'s ''Der Wilde Jager'' and ''[[Lenore (ballad)|Lenora]]''<ref name=cocel/> (See William Taylor, below)
* [[Robert Southey]]:
* [[Robert Southey]]:
** ''Joan of Arc''<ref name=cocel/>
**''[[Joan of Arc (poem)|Joan of Arc]]''<ref name=cocel/>
{{quotebox
** ''Poems''<ref name=cocel/>
| text = "But what good came of it at last?"<br>
* [[William Taylor]], anonymous translation from the [[German poetry|German]] of [[Gottfried August Burger]]'s ''Lenora''), ''Ellemore''<ref name=cocel/>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quoth little Peterkin. <br>
"Why that I cannot tell," said he,<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"But 'twas a famous victory."
| source = Closing lines of ''[[After Blenheim]]'' by [[Robert Southey]]
}}
** ''Poems'', partly a reprint of poems originally published in [[1795 in poetry|1795]] and partly new works,<ref name=cocel/> including "[[After Blenheim]]" (see also ''Poems'' [[1799 in poetry|1799]] and ''Minor Poems'' [[1813 in poetry|1813]]<ref name=cocel/>)
* [[William Taylor (man of letters)|William Taylor]], ''Ellenore'', translation (published anonymously) from the [[German poetry|German]] of [[Gottfried August Burger]]'s ''[[Lenore (ballad)|Lenora]]'')<ref name=cocel/> (see Sir Walter Scott, above)
* [[Ann Yearsley]], ''The Rural Lyre''
* [[Ann Yearsley]], ''The Rural Lyre''


===[[American poetry|United States]]===
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Joel Barlow]]. ''The Hasty Pudding'', a mock epic on the virtues of [[cornmeal mush]], written in France; it became Barlow's most popular work<ref name=gceafd>Carruth, Gorton, ''The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates'', ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993</ref>
* [[Joel Barlow]]. ''The Hasty Pudding'', a mock epic on the virtues of [[cornmeal mush]], written in France; it became Barlow's most popular work<ref name=gceafd>Carruth, Gorton, ''The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates'', ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993</ref>
* [[William Cliffton]], ''The Group; or, An Elegant Representation'', politial verses defending [[Jay's Treaty]] and a satire on common people ignorantly discussing politics<ref name=dbcal>Burt, Daniel S., [http://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C ''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times''], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books</ref>
* [[William Cliffton]], ''The Group; or, An Elegant Representation'', political verses defending [[Jay's Treaty]] and a satire on common people ignorantly discussing politics<ref name=dbcal>Burt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C ''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times''], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-618-16821-7}}, retrieved via Google Books</ref>
* [[Lemuel Hopkins]], "The Guillotina; or, A Democratic Dirge", a New Year's poem praising [[George Washington]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]] while attacking [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his party<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[Lemuel Hopkins]], "The Guillotina; or, A Democratic Dirge", a New Year's poem praising [[George Washington]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]] while attacking [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his party<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[John Blair Linn]], ''The Poetical Wanderer''<ref name=rmlaal>Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602&ndash;1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press</ref>
* John Blair Linn, ''The Poetical Wanderer''<ref name=rmlaal>Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602&ndash;1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press</ref>
* [[Thomas Morris]], ''Quashy; or, The Coal-Black Maid'', the author's most notable poem, describing the life of a black slave in [[Martinique]] and criticizing the British and French systems of slavery<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[Thomas Morris (British Army officer)|Thomas Morris]], ''Quashy; or, The Coal-Black Maid'', the author's most notable poem, describing the life of a black slave in [[Martinique]] and criticizing the British and French systems of slavery<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[Robert Treat Paine, Jr.]], ''The Ruling Passion''<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[Robert Treat Paine, Jr.]], ''The Ruling Passion''<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[Isaac Story]], "All the World's a Stage", published under the [[pen name]] "The Stranger", blank verse; includes popular satirical sketches<ref name=dbcal/>
* Isaac Story, "All the World's a Stage", published under the [[pen name]] "The Stranger", blank verse; includes popular satirical sketches<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[St. George Tucker]], ''The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar'', popular book of anti-Federalist satires on [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Adams]] and others; written in the style of [[John Wolcot]], who wrote under the [[pen name]] "Peter Pindar"; first published in [[1793 in poetry|1793]] in ''The National Gazette'', which was edited by [[Philip Freneau]], so the poems have been wrongly attributed to Freneau.<ref name=dbcal/>
* [[St. George Tucker]], ''The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar'', popular book of anti-Federalist satires on [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Adams]] and others; written in the style of [[John Wolcot]], who wrote under the [[pen name]] "Peter Pindar"; first published in [[1793 in poetry|1793]] in ''The National Gazette'', which was edited by [[Philip Freneau]], so the poems have been wrongly attributed to Freneau.<ref name=dbcal/>

==Works published in other languages==

===[[German poetry|Germany]]===
* [[Johann von Goethe]] and [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797'', published in October, including hundreds of epigrams, both cuttingly satirical (''Xenien'') and "tame" (''zahm''), constructive general comments on literature and art:
** ''Xenien'', 414 satirical epigrams targeting critics but with a broader aim of denouncing narrow-mindedness and poor-thinking among intellectuals, with each epigram a classical [[distich]] composed of a [[hexameter]] and [[pentameter]]; published in October in ''Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797''; principal critics targeted were [[L. H. Jakob]], [[J. K. F. Manso]], and [[F. Nicolai]]; deep offense and bitter reaction resulted<ref name=hmgocgl>Garland, Henry and Mary, "Xenien" article, p 963, ''The Oxford Companion to German Literature'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976</ref>
** ''Tabulae votivae'', 124 "tame" distichs organized into 103 ''tabulae''<ref name=hmgocgl/>
** ''Vielen'', 18 "tame" distichs<ref name=hmgocgl/>
** ''Einer'', 19 "tame" distichs presented as a single, continuous poem<ref name=hmgocgl/>
* [[J. H. Voss]], ''Homers Werke'', one of the most widely read German translations of [[Homer]]<ref name=hmgocgl/>


==Births==
==Births==
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* May 15 &ndash; [[Charlotte Caroline Richardson]] (died [[1854 in poetry|1854]]), [[English poetry|English]]
* June 14 &ndash; [[Mathilda d'Orozco]] (died [[1863 in poetry|1863]]), [[Swedish poetry|Swedish]], originally Spanish-Italian
* July 26 &ndash; [[Christian Winther]] (died [[1876 in poetry|1876]]), [[Danish poetry|Danish]] poet and tutor<ref name=npepap>Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications</ref>
* July 26 &ndash; [[Christian Winther]] (died [[1876 in poetry|1876]]), [[Danish poetry|Danish]] poet and tutor<ref name=npepap>Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications</ref>
* September 19, &ndash; [[Hartley Coleridge]] (died [[1849 in poetry|1849]]), [[English poetry|English]] writer and poet, eldest son of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]
* September 19 &ndash; [[Hartley Coleridge]] (died [[1849 in poetry|1849]]), [[English poetry|English]] writer and poet, eldest son of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]
* October &ndash; [[John Gardiner Calkins Brainard]], (died [[1828 in poetry|1828]]), [[American poetry|American]] lawyer, editor and poet
* October 24 &ndash; [[August Graf von Platen]] (died [[1835 in poetry|1835]]), [[German poetry|German]]
* October 24 &ndash; [[August Graf von Platen]] (died [[1835 in poetry|1835]]), [[German poetry|German]]
* [[Eliza Dunlop]] (died [[1880 in poetry|1880]]), [[Irish poetry|Irish]]-born [[Australian poetry|Australian]] poet, translator and ethnographer

*Also:
** [[John Gardiner Calkins Brainard]], (died [[1828 in poetry|1828]]), [[American poetry|American]] lawyer, editor and poet
** [[Eliza Dunlop]] (died [[1880 in poetry|1880]]), [[Irish poetry|Irish]]-born [[Australian poetry|Australian]] poet, translator and ethnographer
** [[John Hamilton Reynolds]] (died [[1852 in poetry|1852]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet, satirist, critic, and playwright


==Deaths==
==Deaths==
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* February 17 &ndash; [[James Macpherson]] (born [[1736 in poetry|1736]]), [[Poetry of Scotland|Scottish]] poet, writer, literary collector and politician
* January 25 &ndash; [[Robert Burns]], also known as "Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard of Ayrshire" and, in Scotland, simply "The Bard" (died [[1796 in poetry|1796]]), [[Scottish poetry|Scottish]] poet and a lyricist, called the national poet of Scotland
* February 25 &ndash; [[Samuel Seabury (bishop)|Samuel Seabury]] (born [[1729 in poetry|1729]]), [[American poetry|American]] Episcopal bishop and poet<ref name="dbcal"/>
* [[Thomas Cole]]
* May 3 &ndash; [[Robert Lovell]] (born [[1771 in poetry|1771]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet
* [[John Maclaurin]]
* May 12 &ndash; [[Johann Uz]] (born [[1720 in poetry|1720]]), [[German poetry|German]] poet
* [[Lord Dreghorn]]
* July 21 &ndash; [[Robert Burns]] (born [[1759 in poetry|1759]]), [[Poetry of Scotland|Scottish]] poet and lyricist
* [[James Macpherson]]
* December 24 &ndash; [[John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn]] (born [[1734 in poetry|1734]]), [[Poetry of Scotland|Scottish]] judge and poet
* [[Samuel Seabury]] (born [[1729 in poetry|1729]]), [[American poetry|American]] clergyman and poet<ref name=dbcal>Burt, Daniel S., [http://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C ''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times''], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books</ref>
* [[Johann Peter Uz]] (born [[1720 in poetry|1720]]), [[German poetry|German]] poet
* [[John Codrington Bampfylde]] (born [[1754 in poetry|1754]]), [[English poetry|English]] poet
* Thomas Cole (born c.1726/7), [[English poetry|English]] rural poet


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==See also==
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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1793
1794
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1796
1797
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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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The death room of Robert Burns
  • July 21 – Death of the Scottish national poet, Robert Burns ("Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard (of Ayrshire)"), in Dumfries, at the age of 37. His funeral (with honours as a military volunteer) takes place on July 25 while his wife, Jean, is in labour with their ninth child together, Maxwell. Burns is at first buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries. The volume of The Scots Musical Museum published this year includes his versions of the Scots poem "Auld Lang Syne" and "Charlie Is My Darling".[1]

Works published in English

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"But what good came of it at last?"
    Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why that I cannot tell," said he,
    "But 'twas a famous victory."

Closing lines of After Blenheim by Robert Southey

Works published in other languages

[edit]
  • Johann von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797, published in October, including hundreds of epigrams, both cuttingly satirical (Xenien) and "tame" (zahm), constructive general comments on literature and art:
    • Xenien, 414 satirical epigrams targeting critics but with a broader aim of denouncing narrow-mindedness and poor-thinking among intellectuals, with each epigram a classical distich composed of a hexameter and pentameter; published in October in Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797; principal critics targeted were L. H. Jakob, J. K. F. Manso, and F. Nicolai; deep offense and bitter reaction resulted[6]
    • Tabulae votivae, 124 "tame" distichs organized into 103 tabulae[6]
    • Vielen, 18 "tame" distichs[6]
    • Einer, 19 "tame" distichs presented as a single, continuous poem[6]
  • J. H. Voss, Homers Werke, one of the most widely read German translations of Homer[6]

Births

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

Deaths

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

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Robert Burns". BBC. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  3. ^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
  5. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  6. ^ a b c d e Garland, Henry and Mary, "Xenien" article, p 963, The Oxford Companion to German Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976
  7. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications