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Events

Works published

Colonial America

• Anna Young Smith, published under the pen name "Sylvia", "An Elegy to the Memory of the America Volunteers", published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Colonial America
• Philip Freneau:
  • "General Gage's Soliloquy"
  • "General Gage's Confession"
• John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)

United Kingdom

• George Crabbe, Inebriety

Births

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

• Charles Lamb
• Walter Savage Landor
• Matthew Gregory Lewis
• John Leyden
• Joseph Blanco White
• Jane Austen

Deaths

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

• October 2 – Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, 千代尼 (born 1703), Japanese poet of the Edo period and a prominent haiku poet (a woman)

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in 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 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
2. ^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993

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