1778 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen Sonnets[1]
- William Combe, The Auction[1]
- George Ellis, writing under the pen name "Sir Gregory Gander", Poetical Tales[1]
- William Hayley, A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter, published anonymously; addressed to George Romney[1]
- Vicesimus Knox, Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists, a critical essay[2]
- John Scott, Moral Eclogues, published anonymously[1]
- Percival Stockdale, Inquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular Defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope[2]
- John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers[1]
- Joel Barlow, The Prospect of Peace[3]
- William Billings, Chester[3]
- Francis Hopkinson:
- "The Battle of the Kegs", United States[4]
- "Date Obolum Bellisario"[3]
- "The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat"[3]
Works published in other languages
- Ippolit Bogdanovich, Dushenka, a long poem and his best-known work, Russia
- Johannes Ewald, Kong Christian stod ved höjen Mast ("King Christian Stood by the Lofty mast"), a popular song in his melodrama The Fishermen, which later became the Danish national anthem (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later translated it into English)[5]
- Johann Gottfried Herder - Volkslieder nebst untermischten anderen Stücken
- Évariste de Parny - Les Poésies érotiques
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 6 – Ugo Foscolo (died 1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
- April 10 – William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer, essayist and critic
- August 22 – James Kirke Paulding (died 1860), American novelist, poet and United States Secretary of the Navy;[6] a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed
- September 9 – Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
- December 22 – Anna Maria Porter (died 1832), English poet and novelist
- Robert Davidson (died 1855), Scottish peasant poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 30 – Voltaire (born 1694), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
- August 11 – Augustus Toplady (born 1740), English Anglican clergyman, poet and hymn-writer
- Rob Donn (born 1714), Scottish Gaelic poet
See also
- 18th century in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- French literature of the 18th century
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 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
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 50, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- ^ a b c d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
- ^ 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 "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009