1784 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

).

Events

  • About this year, the Sturm und Drang
    Sturm und Drang
    Sturm und Drang is a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s, in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism...

     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".

Works published

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Anonymous, Rolliad
    Rolliad
    The Rolliad, in full Criticisms on the Rolliad, is a pioneering work of British satire directed principally at the administration of William Pitt the Younger...

  • Mary Alcock
    Mary Alcock
    Mary Alcock [née Cumberland] , was a poet, essayist, and philanthropist.Mary was the youngest child of Joanna Bentley and Bishop Denison Cumberland...

    , The Air Balloon
  • Thomas Chatterton
    Thomas Chatterton
    Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease.-Childhood:...

    , A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, poetry and prose (see also, Miscellanies 1778
    1778 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen Sonnets* William Combe, The Auction...

    ), published posthumously (died 1770
    1770 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:-Colonial America:* William Billings, The New England Psalm-Singer* William Livingsotn:** "A Soliloquy"...

    )
  • Richard Jago
    Richard Jago
    Richard Jago was an English poet. He was the third son of Richard Jago, Rector of Beaudesert, Warwickshire.-Education:Jago was educated at Solihull School in the West Midlands. One of the school's five houses bears his name...

    , Poems, Moral and Descriptive
  • Anna Seward
    Anna Seward
    Anna Seward was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.-Life:Seward was the elder daughter of Thomas Seward , prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury, and author...

    , Louisa: A poetical novel
  • Charlotte Turner Smith
    Charlotte Turner Smith
    Charlotte Turner Smith was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility....

    , Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Essays (see also Elegaic Sonnets 1797
    1797 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night Thoughts...

    )
  • Helen Maria Williams
    Helen Maria Williams
    Helen Maria Williams was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her...

    :
    • An Ode on the Peace
    • Peru

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • January 31 – Bernard Barton
    Bernard Barton
    -External links:* at Find-A-Grave...

     (died 1849
    1849 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger...

    ), Quaker poet
  • July 27 - Denis Davydov
    Denis Davydov
    Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre – hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado – and spectacularly designed his own life to illustrate such poetry.-Biography:...

     (died 1839
    1839 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Oxford University.-United Kingdom:...

    ), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars
    Napoleonic Wars
    The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

     who invented a specific genre — hussar
    Hussar
    Hussar refers to a number of types of light cavalry which originated in Hungary in the 14th century, tracing its roots from Serbian medieval cavalry tradition, brought to Hungary in the course of the Serb migrations, which began in the late 14th century....

     poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
  • October 19 – Leigh Hunt  (died 1859
    1859 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes:** Hwomely Rhymes ** The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     critic, essayist, poet and writer
  • November 17 – Julia Nyberg
    Julia Nyberg
    Julia Kristina Nyberg , was a Swedish poet and songwriter. Nyberg grew up as the adoptive daughter of a mill owner, named Adlerwald, in the parish of Skultuna in Västmanland County...

     (died 1854
    1854 in poetry
    — From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:...

    ), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.
  • December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842
    1842 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:-United Kingdom:* Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics, including "My Last Duchess"."The Pied Piper of Hamelin"...

    ), Scottish poet and author

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • December 5 – Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet and first African-American woman whose writings were published. Born in Gambia, Senegal, she was sold into slavery at age seven...

    , American poet, died in poverty in 1784 while working on a second book of poetry, which has now been lost (born 1753
    1753 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Smart wins the Seatonian Prize for the third time...

    )
  • Henry Alline (born 1748
    1748 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-United Kingdom:* Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon...

    ), American-born Canadian
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     preacher and hymn-writer
  • Le Quy Don
    Le Quy Don
    Lê Quý Đôn was an 18th-century Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế Đường. He was a native of Duyen Ha village in present-day Thai Binh Province...

    , Vietnamese
    Vietnamese poetry
    Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include six-eight, couplet of seven sextuplet of eight, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven words ...

     (born 1726
    1726 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Henry Baker, The Second Part of Original Poems: Serious and Humorous...

    ), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
  • Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...

     (born 1709
    1709 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet, author, critic
  • Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan
    Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan
    Jean-Jacques Lefranc , Marquis de Pompignan was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises on archeology, nature, travel and many other subjects; and a wide selection of highly-regarded...

     (born 1709
    1709 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...

    ), French
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

     poet
  • Alexander Ross (poet)


See also

  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature
  • 18th century in poetry
    18th century in poetry
    -Decades and years:...

  • 18th century in literature
    18th century in literature
    See also: 18th century in poetry, 17th century in literature, other events of the 18th century, 19th century in literature, list of years in literature.Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the 18th century....

  • French literature of the 18th century
    French literature of the 18th century
    18th-century French literature is French literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798, the year of the coup d’État of Bonaparte which brought the Consulate to power, concluded the French Revolution, and began the modern era of French history...

  • List of years in poetry
  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

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