1776 in poetry
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Events
- March — American poet Phillis Wheatley, visits with General George Washington for half an hour in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after sending him the previous October a poem written in his honor. A former slave, she was a strong supporter of independence during the American Revolution. The poem was published March 26 in the Virginia Gazette[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- James Beattie, Poems on Several Occasions[2]
- Richard Graves, Euphrosyne; or, Amusements on the Road of Life[2]
- David Herd, editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, anthology[2]
- William Mickle, translator, The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India, translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camoens[2]
- Hannah More, Sir Eldred of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock[2]
- Jonathan Richardson, Morning Thoughts; or, Poetical Meditations, Moral, Divine and Miscellaneous[2]
- John Scott, Amwell[2]
- Augustus Montague Toplady, Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship[2]
- William Whitehead, Variety, published anonymously[2]
Other
- Johannes Ewald, a funeral ode on the occasion of the death of Frederik V; Denmark[3]
- Basilio da Gama, Os Campos Elíseos ("The Elysian Fields"), on the fine arts; Brazil[4]
- Vincenzo Monti, La visione di Ezechiello, Italy
- Jonathan Odell, "A Birthday Song", United States[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 17 – Jean-François Roger (died 1842), French poet and politician
- April 21 (bapt.) – Ann Griffiths (died 1805), Welsh hymn-writer
- July 18 – John Struthers (died 1853), Scottish poet
- September 21 – John Fitchett (died 1838), English epic poet
- November 16 – Mary Matilda Betham (died 1852), English diarist, scholar and poet
- year not certain – Charles Newton[6]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 26 – Evan Lloyd (born 1734), Welsh satirical poet and clergyman
- August 28? (bur.) – John Edwards (Sion y Potlau) (born 1699?), Welsh poet
- date not known – George Smith (born 1713), British
See also
- 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
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, pp 36-37
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ 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
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- ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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