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Events

• Because many white people in colonial Massachusetts found it hard to believe that a black woman could have enough talent to write poetry, Phillis Wheatley had to defend her literary ability in court. She was examined by a group of Boston luminaries including John Erving, Reverend Charles Chauncey, John Hancock, Thomas Hutchinson, the governor of Massachusetts, and his lieutenant governor, Andrew Oliver. They concluded she had in fact written the poems ascribed to her and signed an attestation which was added to the preface to her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral published in Aldgate, London in 1773 after printers in Boston refused to publish the text.

Works published

• Thomas Chatterton, The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin, posthumous
• William Jones, Poems from Asiatic Languages
• William Mason, The English Garden, first volume
• John Trumbull, The Progress of Dulness

Births

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

• William Cliffton, (died 1799), American
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English

Deaths

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

• James Graeme
• Johann Jakob Thill (born 1747), German
• William Wilkie

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

Notes

1. Ellis Cashmore, review of The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, Nellie Y. McKay and Henry Louis Gates, eds., New Statesman, April 25, 1997.
2. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah, Basic Civitas Books, 1999, page 1171.
3. Web page titled [ "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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