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Events
edit- About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement begins in German literature (including poetry) and music; it will last through the early 1780s. (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
edit- Michael Bruce, Elegy Written in Spring
- Francis Fawkes, Partridge-Shooting: An eclogue[1]
- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, The Beauties of English Poesy, an anthology[1]
- Francis Hopkinson, the Psalms of David [...] in Metre, English, Colonial America[2]
- Richard Jago, Edge-Hill; or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised[1]
- Henry Jones, Kew Gardens[1]
- Moses Mendes, editor, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, an anthology[1]
- William Mickle, The Concubine (reissued as Sir Martin 1778)[1]
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Use of Families
- Phillis Wheatley, a poem published in the Newport Mercury in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761;[3] Colonial America
Works wrongly said to be published this year
edit- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology; although the book states it was published this year, it first appeared in 1766[1]
Births
editDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 1 – Alexander Balfour (died 1829), Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet
- September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel (died 1845), German poet, translator, critic, and a leader of German Romanticism
Deaths
editBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 17 – Roger Wolcott (born 1679), English Colonial American, governor of Connecticut and poet[4]
- June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann (died 1681), German composer and poet
- July 15 – Michael Bruce (born 1746), Scottish poet
- December 21 – Leonard Howard (born 1699?), English clergyman, "poet laureate of the King's Bench Prison"[5]
See also
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Notes
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20
- ^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ "Leonard Howard" article in DNB