1771 in poetry
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,IrishorFrance).
Events
[edit]- April 9 –PortuguesepoetPedro Correia Garçãois arrested and committed to prison (where he will die) bySebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal.
- EnglishpoetWilliam Masonis employed to lay out a flower garden atNuneham Courtenayin Oxfordshire byViscount Nuneham.
Works published
[edit]
- Jane Dunlap,Poems upon Several Sermons Preached by the Rev'dGeorge Whitefield,Colonial Massachusetts[1]
- Levi Frisbie,"A Poem on the Rise and Progress of Moor's Indian Charity School",English,Colonial America[2]
- John Trumbull,"An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Buckingham St. John",English,Colonial America[2]
- James Beattie,The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius,Book 1, (Book 2:The English Garden1774,[3]in 4 volumes 1771–1781)
- James Cawthorn,Poems[3]
- John Langhorne,The Fables of Flora[3]
- Henry Mackenzie,Pursuits of Happiness,published anonymously after a stay in London;Scottish[4]
- Thomas Percy,The Hermit of Warkworth,published anonymously[3]
- Henry James Pye,The Triumph of Fashion[3]
- John Wesley,The Works of the Rev. John Wesley,published in 32 volumes (1771–1774)[3]by the Methodist divine and hymn writer
- Phillis Wheatley,an elegy toGeorge Whitefieldfirst published (shortly after his death) inColonial Americain1770,where it received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in Newport, Rhode Island, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport.[5]
Other
[edit]- Ambrosius Stub,Arier og andre poetiske Stykker( "Arier and Other Poetic Works" ), edited by T. S. Heiberg;Denmark,posthumous
- Christoph Martin Wieland,Der neue Amadis( "New Amadis" ), a comic poem in 18 cantos;Germany[6]
Births
[edit]Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 21 –Thomas John Dibdin(died1841),Englishdramatist and songwriter
- June 3 –Sydney Smith(died1845),Englishwriter, wit and Anglican clergyman
- August 15 –Walter Scott(died1832),Scottishpoet and historical novelist
- October 25 –Robert Lovell(died1796),Englishpoet
- November 4 –James Montgomery(died1854), Scottish editor and poet
- November 11 –Thomas Green Fessenden,(died1837),American[7]
- December 25 –Dorothy Wordsworth(died1855),Englishauthor, poet and diarist
- Bankidas Asiya(died1833),Rajasthanipoet and scholar
- Liang Desheng(died1847), Chinese poet and writer during theQing dynasty
Deaths
[edit]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 30 –Thomas Gray(born1716),Englishpoet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard ofStoke Poges,the setting for his famous1750poem,Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,one of only 13 published in his lifetime
- May 21 –Christopher Smart(born1722),Englishpoet
- August 19 –Daniel Schiebeler(born1741),Germanwriter and poet
- September 13 –John Gambold(born1711), Anglo-Welsh bishop of the Moravian church and poet
- September 17 –Tobias Smollett(born1721), Scottish poet and author
- October 2 –James Plumptre(died1832),Englishclergyman, dramatist and hymnodist
- December 23 –Johann Friedrich Löwen(born1727),Germanpoet, intellectual, drama theorist and at one time a confidant ofGotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Francis Williams(born1702), blackJamaicanscholar and poet
See also
[edit]
- 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 inGermanliterature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
- List of years in poetry
- Poetry
Notes
[edit]- ^Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West,Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History,Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN978-0-19-509053-6,retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
- ^abLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr.,Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983,1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^abcdefCox, Michael, ed. (2004).The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature.Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-860634-6.
- ^"Henry Mackenzie"[permanent dead link],reprint from an article by William Anderson, inScottish Nation(1859-66),3:23-25, retrieved 2009-06-28.
- ^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.ISBN978-0-465-01850-5,p. 21, 22
- ^Thomas, Calvin,A History of German Literature,New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
- ^"Bibliography".American Poetry Full-Text Database.University of Chicago Library.Retrieved2009-03-04.