1796 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
1799

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

The death room of Robert Burns
  • July 21 – Death of the Scottish national poet, Robert Burns ("Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard (of Ayrshire)"), in Dumfries, at the age of 37. His funeral (with honours as a military volunteer) takes place on July 25 while his wife, Jean, is in labour with their ninth child together, Maxwell. Burns is at first buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries. The volume of The Scots Musical Museum published this year includes his versions of the Scots poem "Auld Lang Syne" and "Charlie Is My Darling".[1]

Works published in English[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Mary Matilda Betham, Elegies, and Other Small Poems[2]
  • William Lisle Bowles, Hope[2]
  • Sir James Burges, The Birth and Triumph of Love[2]
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  • M. G. Lewis, published anonymously, Village Virtues[2]
  • Sir Walter Scott, The Chase, and William and Helen, translation (published anonymously) from the German of Gottfried August Burger's Der Wilde Jager and Lenora[2] (See William Taylor, below)
  • Robert Southey:

"But what good came of it at last?"
    Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why that I cannot tell," said he,
    "But 'twas a famous victory."

Closing lines of After Blenheim by Robert Southey

  • William Taylor, Ellenore, translation (published anonymously) from the German of Gottfried August Burger's Lenora)[2] (see Sir Walter Scott, above)
  • Ann Yearsley, The Rural Lyre

United States[]

  • Joel Barlow. The Hasty Pudding, a mock epic on the virtues of cornmeal mush, written in France; it became Barlow's most popular work[3]
  • William Cliffton, The Group; or, An Elegant Representation, political verses defending Jay's Treaty and a satire on common people ignorantly discussing politics[4]
  • Lemuel Hopkins, "The Guillotina; or, A Democratic Dirge", a New Year's poem praising George Washington and Alexander Hamilton while attacking Thomas Jefferson and his party[4]
  • John Blair Linn, The Poetical Wanderer[5]
  • Thomas Morris, Quashy; or, The Coal-Black Maid, the author's most notable poem, describing the life of a black slave in Martinique and criticizing the British and French systems of slavery[4]
  • Robert Treat Paine, Jr., The Ruling Passion[4]
  • Isaac Story, "All the World's a Stage", published under the pen name "The Stranger", blank verse; includes popular satirical sketches[4]
  • St. George Tucker, The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar, popular book of anti-Federalist satires on Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and others; written in the style of John Wolcot, who wrote under the pen name "Peter Pindar"; first published in 1793 in The National Gazette, which was edited by Philip Freneau, so the poems have been wrongly attributed to Freneau.[4]

Works published in other languages[]

Germany[]

  • Johann von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797, published in October, including hundreds of epigrams, both cuttingly satirical (Xenien) and "tame" (zahm), constructive general comments on literature and art:
    • Xenien, 414 satirical epigrams targeting critics but with a broader aim of denouncing narrow-mindedness and poor-thinking among intellectuals, with each epigram a classical distich composed of a hexameter and pentameter; published in October in Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797; principal critics targeted were , , and ; deep offense and bitter reaction resulted[6]
    • Tabulae votivae, 124 "tame" distichs organized into 103 tabulae[6]
    • Vielen, 18 "tame" distichs[6]
    • Einer, 19 "tame" distichs presented as a single, continuous poem[6]
  • J. H. Voss, Homers Werke, one of the most widely read German translations of Homer[6]

Births[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Deaths[]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Robert Burns". BBC. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  3. ^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  4. ^ a b c d e f g 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
  5. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  6. ^ a b c d e Garland, Henry and Mary, "Xenien" article, p 963, The Oxford Companion to German Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976
  7. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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