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Events

• About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature (including poetry) and music, which began in the late 1760s. Tthe 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".

Works published

• Hannah More, Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle, United States
• Évariste de Parny, Élégies, France

Births

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

• October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
• November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.

Deaths

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

• December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet, died in poverty in 1784 while working on a second book of poetry, which has now been lost (born 1753)
• Henry Alline
• Bernard Barton
• Samuel Johnson
• Alexander Ross
• George Alexander Stevens

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
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

Notes

1. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
2. Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology by Hilda L. Smith, Indiana University Press, 2000, page 123.

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