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Events

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Works published

English Colonial America

• Jane Dunlap, Poems upon Several Sermons Preached by the Rev'd George Whitefield, Colonial Massachusetts
• Levi Frisbie, "A Poem on the Rise and Progress of Moor's Indian Charity School", English, Colonial America
• John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Buckingham St. John", English, Colonial America

United Kingdom

• James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book 1, (Book 2: The English Garden 1774, in 4 volumes 1771–1781)
• James Cawthorn, Poems
• John Langhorne, The Fables of Flora
• Henry Mackenzie, Pursuits of Happiness, published anonymously after a stay in London; Scottish
• Thomas Percy, The Hermit of Warkworth, published anonymously
• Henry James Pye, The Triumph of Fashion
• John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, published in 32 volumes (1771–1774) by the Methodist divine and hymn writer
• Phillis Wheatley, an elegy to George Whitefield first published (shortly after his death) in Colonial America in 1770, where it received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in Newport, Rhode Island, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport.

Other

• Ambrosius Stub, Arier og andre poetiske Stykker ("Arier and Other Poetic Works"), edited by T. S. Heiberg; Denmark, posthumous
• Martin Wieland, New Amadis, a comic poem in 18 cantos; Germany

Births

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

• April 7 – William Wordsworth (died 1850), English poet
• Bankidas Asiya (died 1833), Rajasthani poet and scholar
• Thomas John Dibdin (died 1841), English dramatist and song-writer
• Thomas Green Fessenden, (died 1837), American
• Liang Desheng (died 1847), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
• James Montgomery (died 1854), English editor and poet
• Sir Walter Scott (died 1832), Scottish historical novelist and poet
• Sydney Smith (died 1845), English writer and Anglican clergyman
• Dorothy Wordsworth (died 1855), English author, poet and diarist

Deaths

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

• July 30 – Thomas Gray (born 1716), English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous 1750 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• August 19 – Daniel Schiebeler (born 1741), German writer and poet
• December 23 – Johann Friedrich Löwen (born 1727), German poet, intellectual, drama theorist and at one time a confidant of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Samuel Bowden
• John Gambold
• Christopher Smart (born 1722), English poet
• Tobias Smollett (born 1721), Scottish poet and author

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. Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
4. Web page titled "Henry Mackenzie", a reprint from an article by William Anderson, in Scottish Nation (1859-66), "3:23-25", retrieved June 28, 2009
5. 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. 21, 22
6. Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
7. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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