1783 in poetry

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

Events

Works published

United Kingdom

• Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
• William Blake, Poetical Sketches
• Jane Cave (later, Jane Wiscom), Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious
• Judith Cowper (later, Judith Madan), The Progress of Poetry
• George Crabbe, The Village
• John Hoole translator, Orlando Furioso
• Joseph Ritson, editor, A Select Collection of English Songs, anthology
• John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (Lyric Odes 1782)

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• David Humphreys, United States:
  • The Glory of America; or Peace Triumphant over War
  • Poem on the Industry of the United States of America

Births

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

• April 3 â€" Washington Irving (died 1859), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
• April 21 â€" Reginald Heber (died 1826) Church of England bishop, poet and hymn writer
• September 8 â€" N. F. S. Grundtvig (died 1872), Danish
• September 23 â€" Jane Taylor (died 1824), England poet and novelist

Deaths

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

• January 2 â€" Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
• July 7 â€" Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German
• July 15 â€" Yokoi YayÅ« 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般), and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku, and a haikai poet
• October 10 â€" Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright
• November 23 â€" Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
• December 12 â€" John Scott (born 1731), 53, English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
• Also:
  • John Seccomb, (born 1708), clergyman and poet, United States
  • Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English playwright, poet and author
  • Yosa Buson 与謝蕪æ' (born 1716), Japanese, Edo period poet and painter; along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period and one of the greatest haiku poets of all time (surname: Yosa)

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