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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. 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".

Works published

United Kingdom

• Anonymous, Rolliad
• Mary Alcock, The Air Balloon
• Thomas Chatterton, A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, poetry and prose (see also, Miscellanies 1778), published posthumously (died 1770)
• Richard Jago, Poems, Moral and Descriptive
• Anna Seward, Louisa: A poetical novel
• Charlotte Turner Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Essays (see also Elegaic Sonnets 1797)
• Helen Maria Williams:
  • An Ode on the Peace
  • Peru

Other

• Évariste de Parny, Élégies, France

Births

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

• January 31 – Bernard Barton (died 1849), Quaker poet
• July 27 - Denis Davydov (died 1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
• October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
• November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.
• December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842), Scottish poet and author

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 (born 1748), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
• Le Quy Don, Vietnamese (born 1726), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
• Samuel Johnson (born 1709), English poet, author, critic
• Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (born 1709), French poet
• Alexander Ross (poet)

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. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology by Hilda L. Smith, Indiana University Press, 2000, page 123.

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