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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- March — Phillis Wheatley, appeared before General George Washington for her poetry. A former slave, she was a strong supporter of independence during the American Revolution.
Works published
United Kingdom
- James Beattie, Poems on Several Occasions
- Richard Graves, Euphrosyne; or, Amusements on the Road of Life
- David Herd, editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, anthology
- William Mickle, translator, The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India, translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camoens
- Hannah More, Sir Eldred of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock
- Jonathan Richardson, Morning Thoughts; or, Poetical Meditations, Moral, Divine and Miscellaneous
- John Scott, Amwell
- Augustus Montague Toplady, Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship
- William Whitehead, Variety, published anonymously
Other
- Johannes Ewald, a funeral ode on the occasion of the death of Frederik V; Denmark
- Basilio da Gama, Os Campos Elíseos ("The Elysian Fields"), on the fine arts; Brazil
- Vincenzo Monti, La visione di Ezechiello, Italy
- Jonathan Odell, "A Birthday Song", United States
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- year not certain – Lady Morgan, née Sydney Owenson, (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet
- year not certain – Charles Newton (poet)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- 26 January – Evan Lloyd (born 1734), Welsh
- date not known – George Smith (poet) (born 1713), British
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
- Sturm und Drang (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"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
- List of years in poetry
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 178, Dial Press, 1938, New York
- Web page titled "Basílio da Gama/Bibliografia" at the Academia Brasilia Letros website, retrieved February 4, 2009
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Web page titled "The Book of Eighteenth Century Verse" at the "Romantic Circles" website of the University of Maryland, retrieved December 4, 2008
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