1784 in poetry
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Events
- About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature (including poetry) and music, which began in the late 1760s. 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".
- Phillis Wheatley advertises in the September issue of The Boston Magazine for subscribers to a volume of poetry she proposes to publish, but the volume never appears, apparently for lack of support; United States[1]
Works published
Frontespiece of Elegiac Sonnets by Charlotte Turner Smith
United Kingdom
- Anonymous, Rolliad
- Mary Alcock, The Air Balloon[2]
- Thomas Chatterton, A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, poetry and prose (see also, Miscellanies 1778), published posthumously (died 1770)[2]
- Richard Jago, Poems, Moral and Descriptive[2]
- Anna Seward, Louisa: A poetical novel[2]
- Charlotte Turner Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Essays (see also Elegaic Sonnets 1797)[2]
- Helen Maria Williams:
- An Ode on the Peace
- Peru[2]
Other
- Évariste de Parny, Élégies, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 31 – Bernard Barton (died 1849), Quaker poet
- July 27 - Denis Davydov (died 1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
- October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
- November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.
- December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842), Scottish poet and author
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 14; Charlotta Löfgren (born 1720), Swedish poet
- December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet, died in poverty in 1784 while working on a second book of poetry, which has now been lost[3] (born 1753)
- Henry Alline (born 1748), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
- Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese (born 1726), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
- Samuel Johnson (born 1709), English poet, author, critic
- Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (born 1709), French poet
- Alexander Ross (poet)
See also
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry
- 18th century in literature
- 18th-century French literature
- List of years in poetry
- Poetry
Notes
- ↑ 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. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, p 68
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology by Hilda L. Smith, Indiana University Press, 2000, page 123.
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