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Events

• March — 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

Works published

United Kingdom

• James Beattie, Poems on Several Occasions
• Richard Graves, Euphrosyne; or, Amusements on the Road of Life
• David Herd, editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, anthology
• William Mickle, translator, The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India, translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camoens
• Hannah More, Sir Eldred of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock
• Jonathan Richardson, Morning Thoughts; or, Poetical Meditations, Moral, Divine and Miscellaneous
• John Scott, Amwell
• Augustus Montague Toplady, Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship
• William Whitehead, Variety, published anonymously

Other

• Johannes Ewald, a funeral ode on the occasion of the death of Frederik V; Denmark
• Basilio da Gama, Os Campos Elíseos ("The Elysian Fields"), on the fine arts; Brazil
• Vincenzo Monti, La visione di Ezechiello, Italy
• Jonathan Odell, "A Birthday Song", United States

Births

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

• year not certain – Lady Morgan, née Sydney Owenson, (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet
• year not certain – Charles Newton (poet)

Deaths

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

• 26 January – Evan Lloyd (born 1734), Welsh
• date not known – George Smith (poet) (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

1. 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. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. 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
4. Web page titled "Basílio da Gama/Bibliografia" at the Academia Brasilia Letros website, retrieved February 4, 2009
5. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
6. Web page titled "The Book of Eighteenth Century Verse" at the "Romantic Circles" website of the University of Maryland, retrieved December 4, 2008

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