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Events

Works published

• Joseph Dumbleton, "A RHAPSODY on RUM", a popular, solemn poem by a Southern newspaper versifier describing how rum destroys a drinker; first published in the ' 'South Carolina Gazette' ' and reprinted in newspapers throughout English Colonial America
• Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes
• William Collins:
  • On the Death of Thomson
  • "The Passions"

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith (died 1806), English poet and novelist
• August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (died 1832)

• Also:
  • James Graeme
  • Ōta Nampo 大田南畝, the most oft-used penname of Ōta Tan, whose other pen names include Yomo no Akara, Yomo Sanjin, Kyōkaen, and Shokusanjin 蜀山人 (died 1823), late Edo period Japanese poet and fiction writer
  • Samuel Jackson Pratt

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• June 19 — Ambrose Philips, English poet (born 1675)

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

Notes

1. 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

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