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Overview of the events of 1784 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature (including poetry) and music, which began in the late 1760s. 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".
Works published
United Kingdom
- Anonymous, Rolliad
- Mary Alcock, The Air Balloon
- Thomas Chatterton, A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, poetry and prose (see also, Miscellanies 1778), published posthumously (died 1770)
- Richard Jago, Poems, Moral and Descriptive
- Anna Seward, Louisa: A poetical novel
- Charlotte Turner Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Essays (see also Elegaic Sonnets 1797)
- Helen Maria Williams:
- An Ode on the Peace
- Peru
Other
- Évariste de Parny, Élégies, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 31 – Bernard Barton (died 1849), Quaker poet
- July 27 - Denis Davydov (died 1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
- October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
- November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.
- December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842), Scottish poet and author
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet, died in poverty in 1784 while working on a second book of poetry, which has now been lost (born 1753)
- Henry Alline (born 1748), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
- Le Quy Don, Vietnamese (born 1726), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
- Samuel Johnson (born 1709), English poet, author, critic
- Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (born 1709), French poet
- Alexander Ross (poet)
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
- List of years in poetry
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology by Hilda L. Smith, Indiana University Press, 2000, page 123.
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