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** ''Poems on Various Subjects''<ref name=cocel/> |
** ''Poems on Various Subjects''<ref name=cocel/> including "[[Lines Written at Shurton Bars]]" |
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* [[M. G. Lewis]], published anonymously, ''Village Virtues''<ref name=cocel/> |
* [[M. G. Lewis]], published anonymously, ''Village Virtues''<ref name=cocel/> |
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* 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]], 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/> |
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Mary Matilda Betham, Elegies, and Other Small Poems[1]
- William Lisle Bowles, Hope[1]
- Sir James Burges, The Birth and Triumph of Love[1]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
- Ode on the Departing Year[1]
- Poems on Various Subjects[1] including "Lines Written at Shurton Bars"
- M. G. Lewis, published anonymously, Village Virtues[1]
- Sir Walter Scott, anonymous translation from the German of Gottfried August Burger's Der Wilde Jager and Lenora), The Chase, and William and Helen[1]
- Robert Southey:
- William Taylor, anonymous translation from the German of Gottfried August Burger's Lenora), Ellemore[1]
- Ann Yearsley, The Rural Lyre
- Joel Barlow. The Hasty Pudding, a mock epic on the virtues of cornmeal mush, written in France; it became Barlow's most popular work[2]
- William Cliffton, The Group; or, An Elegant Representation, politial verses defending Jay's Treaty and a satire on common people ignorantly discussing politics[3]
- 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[3]
- John Blair Linn, The Poetical Wanderer[4]
- 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[3]
- Robert Treat Paine, Jr., The Ruling Passion[3]
- Isaac Story, "All the World's a Stage", published under the pen name "The Stranger", blank verse; includes popular satirical sketches[3]
- 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 The National Gazette, which was edited by Philip Freneau, so the poems have been wrongly attributed to Freneau.[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 26 – Christian Winther (died 1876), Danish poet and tutor[5]
- September 19, – Hartley Coleridge (died 1849), English writer and poet, eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- October 24 – August Graf von Platen (died 1835), German
- Also:
- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, (died 1828), American lawyer, editor and poet
- Eliza Dunlop (died 1880), Irish-born Australian poet, translator and ethnographer
- John Hamilton Reynolds (died 1852), English poet, satirist, critic, and playwright
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- John Codrington Bampfylde (born 1754), English
- January 25 – Robert Burns, also known as "Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard of Ayrshire" and, in Scotland, simply "The Bard" (born 1759), Scottish poet and a lyricist, called the national poet of Scotland
- Thomas Cole (poet)
- John Maclaurin
- Lord Dreghorn
- James Macpherson (born 1736), Scottish poet
- Samuel Seabury (born 1729), American clergyman and poet[3]
- Johann Peter Uz (born 1720), German poet
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
- ^ 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 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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