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Events

Works published

• James Beattie, "The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book I", (followed in 1774 by Book II The English Garden, in 4 volumes 1771-81)
• Jane Dunlap, Poems upon Several Sermons Preached by the Rev'd George Whitefield, Colonial Massachusetts

Births

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

• April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (died 1850)
• Thomas John Dibdin
• Thomas Green Fessenden, (died 1837), American
• James Montgomery (Scotland)
• Sir Walter Scott
• Sydney Smith
• Dorothy Wordsworth

Deaths

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

• April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (died 1850)
• 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
• Thomas Gray
• Christopher Smart
• Tobias Smollett

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. Web page titled [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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