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Events edit

A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this year. The scene shows the friends of Reynolds, including poets Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Warton - many of whom were members of "The Club" (use cursor to identify).

George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke asking for financial assistance. The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.^[1]

Works published edit

United Kingdom edit

William Cowper, Anti-Thelyphthora, published anonymously (see also Martin Madan's Thelyphthora 1780)^[2]
George Crabbe, The Library, published anonymously^[2]
Anne Francis, A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon^[2]
William Hayley, The Triumphs of Temper^[2]
George Keate, Poetical Works^[2]
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Sympathy; or, A Sketch of the Social Passion, published anonymously^[2]
Anna Seward, Monody on Major André, on John André, hanged as a spy in the American Revolution

United States edit

Philip Freneau, The British Prison-Ship: A Poem^[3]
William Hayley, "The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem"^[3]
Francis Hopkinson, The Temple of Minerva^[3]
Anna Seward, Monody on Major Andre^[3]

Other edit

Santa Rita Durão, Caramuru, Portuguese poem written in Brazil

Births edit

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

January 26 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (died 1831), German poet and novelist
March 17 – Ebenezer Elliott (died 1849), English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer
September 12 – John Grieve (died 1836), Scottish poet
November 6 – Lucy Aikin (died 1864), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator
November 29 – Andrés Bello (died 1865), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
December 25? – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet

Deaths edit

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

January 6 – Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet, shot
February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729), German poet
March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet^[4]
May 8 – Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet
June 25 – Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 1711), German poet
November 4 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (born 1721), German poet
Azar Bigdeli (died 1722), Persian anthologist and poet

Notes edit

^ Ainger, Alfred (1903). Crabbe. New York: Macmillan. pp. 31–32.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.

[Ainger-1] Ainger, Alfred (1903). Crabbe. New York: Macmillan. pp. 31–32.

[cocel-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

[rmlaal-3] Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

[tt-4] Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.

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