1793 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[]
- Summer – William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales (passing by Tintern Abbey). His first poems are published this year.[1]
Works published[]
United Kingdom[]
Title page of The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker
- William Blake:
- Lady , Poems[1]
- Robert Burns, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect[1]
- Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology, anthology[1]
- Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants, dedicated to William Cowper[1]
- George Thomson, A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, published in four volumes from this year to 1799; Volume 1 has 59 songs by Robert Burns[1]
- William Wordsworth:
- Ann Yearsley, Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI[1]
United States[]
- Richard Alsop, American Poems[2]
- Ann Eliza Bleecker, The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, including 36 poems, 23 letters, an unfinished short historical novel, and a captivity narrative (also including 's A Collection of Essays, Prose and Poetical[2]), prose and poetry
- Philip Freneau, "On the Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille", in which the French Revolution is endorsed[3]
- , editor, American Poems, Selected and Original, the first notable American poetry anthology; contains poems largely from the Hartford Wits group of Connecticut poets, including poems by friends of Smith such as John Trumbull, Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight and , as well as Philip Freneau, William Livingston, Sarah Wentworth Morton and Robert Treat Paine; Litchfield, Connecticut: Printed by Collier and Buel;[3][4]
Other[]
- Solomon Gessner, works, translated into French from the original German of the Swiss poet; in three volumes, published starting 1786, with the last volume published this year; posthumous after 1788
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 1 – Henry Francis Lyte (died 1847), Scottish-born Anglican priest and hymn-writer
- July 13 – John Clare (died 1864), English "peasant poet"
- August 25 – John Neal (died 1876),[4] eccentric and influential American writer, critic, lecturer, and activist
- September 25 – Felicia Hemans (died 1835), English poet
- October 11 – Maria James (died 1868), Welsh-born American poet and domestic servant
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 29 – Charlotte Brooke (born c. 1740), Irish poet
- July 4 – Antoine-Marin Lemierre (born 1733), French poet and playwright
- September 16 – Johann Adolf Schlegel (born 1721), German poet and pastor
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
- ^ a b Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
Categories:
- 18th-century poetry
- 1793
- 1793 poems