1781 in poetry
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Events[]
A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this year. The scene shows the friends of Reynolds, including poets Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Warton - many of whom were members of "The Club" (use cursor to identify).
- George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke asking for financial assistance. The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.[1]
Works published[]
United Kingdom[]
- William Cowper, Anti-Thelyphthora, published anonymously (see also Martin Madan's Thelyphthora 1780)[2]
- George Crabbe, The Library, published anonymously[2]
- Anne Francis, A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon[2]
- William Hayley, The Triumphs of Temper[2]
- George Keate, Poetical Works[2]
- Samuel Jackson Pratt, Sympathy; or, A Sketch of the Social Passion, published anonymously[2]
- Anna Seward, Monody on Major André, on John André, hanged as a spy in the American Revolution
United States[]
- Philip Freneau, : A Poem[3]
- William Hayley, "The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem"[3]
- Francis Hopkinson, The Temple of Minerva[3]
- Anna Seward, Monody on Major Andre[3]
Other[]
- Santa Rita Durão, Caramuru, Portuguese poem written in Brazil
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 26 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (died 1831), German poet and novelist
- March 17 – Ebenezer Elliott (died 1849), English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer
- September 12 – John Grieve (died 1836), Scottish poet
- November 6 – Lucy Aikin (died 1864), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator
- November 29 – Andrés Bello (died 1865), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
- December 25? – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729), German poet
- March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet[4]
- May 8 – Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet
- June 25 – Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 1711), German poet
- November 4 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (born 1721), German poet
- Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet, shot
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[]
- ^ Ainger, Alfred (1903). Crabbe. New York: Macmillan. pp. 31–32.
- ^ 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 c d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328
Categories:
- 18th-century poetry
- 1781
- 1781 poems