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* ], a poem pubished in the ''Newport Mercury'' in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761;<ref>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, p. 20</ref> ] | ||
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Overview of the events of 1767 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 began in German literature (including poetry) and music. It would last through the early 1780s. (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
- Michael Bruce, Elegy Written in Spring
- Francis Fawkes, Partridge-Shooting: An eclogue
- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, The Beauties of English Poesy, an anthology
- Francis Hopkinson, "the Psalms of David in Metre, English, Colonial America
- Richard Jago, Edge-Hill; or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised
- Henry Jones, Kew Gardens
- Moses Mendes, editor, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, an anthology
- William Mickle, The Concubine (reissued as Sir Martin 1778)
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Use of Families
- Phillis Wheatley, a poem pubished in the Newport Mercury in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761; Colonial America
Works wrongly said to be published this year
- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology; although the book states it was published this year, it first appeared in 1766
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 1 – Alexander Balfour (died 1829), Scottish writer, novelist, short-story writer and poet
- September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel (died 1845), German poet, translator, critic, and a leader of German Romanticism
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- May 17 – Roger Wolcott (born 1679), English Colonial American, governor of Connecticut and a poet
- July 15 – Michael Bruce (born 1746), Scottish poet
- December 21 – Leonard Howard (born 1699?), Divine also dubbed poet laureate in the King's Bench
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
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- 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, p. 20
- Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- "Leonard Howard" article in DNB
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