Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
October 26 - Phillis Wheatley sends a poem and letter to General George Washington in his honor. He responded to her in 1776.
Works published
Colonial America
- Anna Young Smith, published under the pen name "Sylvia", "An Elegy to the Memory of the America Volunteers", published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Colonial America
- Philip Freneau:
- "General Gage's Soliloquy"
- "General Gage's Confession"
- "A Voyage to Boston"
- "American Liberty"
- "A Political Litany"
- John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)
- Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
- George Crabbe, Inebriety, published anonymously
- Hugh Downman, The Drama
- Thomas Gray, The Poems of Mr. Gray, to which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, M.A., Annotated letters of Thomas Gray, comments by Mason on the poems; York: A. Ward; criticism and biography
- Edward Jerningham, The Fall of Mexico
- Mary Robinson, Poems
- Richard Savage, The Works of Richard Savage, edited by Samuel Johnson, with a life of Savage by Johnson, later reprinted in Johnson's Prefaces [...] to the Works of the English Poets 1779 (see also An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage 1744)
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- August 31 â€" Agnes Bulmer (died 1836), English poet
- Charles Lamb (died 1834), English/Welsh essayist and poet
- Walter Savage Landor (died 1864), English writer and poet
- Matthew Gregory Lewis (died 1818), English novelist and dramatist
- John Leyden (died 1811), British orientalist
- Joseph Blanco White (died 1841), Spanish theologian and poet
- Jane Austen (died 1817), English novelist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- October 2 â€" Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, åƒä»£å°¼ (born 1703), Japanese poet of the Edo period and a prominent haiku poet (a woman)
- date unknown
- Ramprasad Sen (born 1718), Shakta poet of Bengal
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