1787 in poetry
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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:...

).

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...

  • Robert Burns
    Robert Burns
    Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide...

    :
    • Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (see also the editions of 1786
      1786 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Jane Bowdler, Poems and Essays, "By a Lady Lately Deceased", 17 editions by 1830)...

      , 1793
      1793 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Blake:** America: A prophecy, illuminated book with 18 relief-etched plates...

      )
    • see also Richard Glover's The Scots Musical Museum, below
  • Anne Francis
    Anne Francis
    Anne Lloyd Francis was an American actress, best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet , and as the female private detective in the television series Honey West . She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Honey West...

    , Charlotte to Werter
  • Richard Glover
    Richard Glover (Poet)
    Richard Glover was an English poet and politician.-Life:The son of Richard Glover, a Hamburg merchant, was born in London. He was educated at Cheam in Surrey....

    , The Atheniad
  • James Johnson, editor, The Scots Musical Museum, an anthology with 177 of the 600 songs written by Robert Burns
    Robert Burns
    Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide...

    , who had collected many of the others; published in six volumes from this year to 1803
    1803 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* First appearance of the Literary Magazine and American Register, a United States monthly published in Philadelphia and edited by Charles Brockden Brown until 1807, when it became a semiannual...

    ; Volumes 2–5 edited by Burns
  • George Keate
    George Keate
    George Keate was an English poet and writer.-Life:He was son of George Keate of Isleworth, Middlesex, who married Rachel Kawolski, daughter of Count Christian Kawolski. He was born at Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where his father had property, on 30 November 1729...

    , The Distressed Poet
  • Sophia Lee
    Sophia Lee
    Sophia Lee was an English novelist and dramatist.She was the daughter of John Lee , actor and theatrical manager, and was born in London...

    , A Hermit's Tale, published anonymously
  • Robert Merry, Paulina; or, The Russian Daughter
  • John Ogilvie, The Fame of the Druids, published anonymously
  • Edward Rushton
    Edward Rushton
    Edward Rushton was a British poet and writer.-Early life:Edward Rushton was born in Liverpool on November 13, 1756. He was enrolled at the Liverpool Free School from the age of 6 until the age of 9. He left school and by the age of 11 and became an apprentice with Messrs...

    , West-Indian Eclogues, published anonymously
  • John Thelwall
    John Thelwall
    John Thelwall , was a radical British orator, writer, and elocutionist.-Life:Thelwall was born in Covent Garden, London, but was descended from a Welsh family which had its seat at Plas y Ward, Denbighshire...

    , Poems on Various Subjects
  • John Wolcot
    John Wolcot
    John Wolcot , satirist, born in Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge in Devon, was educated by an uncle, and studied medicine. In 1767 he went as physician to Sir William Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, and whom he induced to present him to a Church in the island then vacant, and was ordained in 1769...

    , writing under the pen name
    Pen name
    A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

     "Peter Pindar", Ode Upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James
  • Ann Yearsley
    Ann Yearsley
    Ann Yearsley née Cromartie was an English poet and writer.Born in Bristol to John and Anne Cromartie , Ann married John Yearsley, a yeoman, in 1774. A decade later the family were rescued from destitution by the charity of Hannah More and others. More organized subscriptions for Yearsley to...

    , Poems, on Various Subjects

United States

  • Joel Barlow
    Joel Barlow
    Joel Barlow was an American poet, diplomat and politician. In his own time, Barlow was well-known for the epic Vision of Columbus. Modern readers may be more familiar with "The Hasty Pudding"...

    , The Vision of Columbus, nine books; describes America as prosperous and improving, seeks to promote "the love of national liberty" in Americans (revised as The Columbiad 1807
    1807 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Ireland:* Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom...

    )
  • James Beattie
    James Beattie (writer)
    Professor James Beattie FRSE was a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher.He was born the son of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk in the Mearns, and educated at Aberdeen University. In 1760, he was appointed Professor of moral philosophy there as a result of the interest of his...

    , Poems on Several Occasions
  • Peter Markoe, Miscellaneous Poems

Other

  • Jean-François Marmontel
    Jean-François Marmontel
    Jean-François Marmontel was a French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement.-Biography:He was born of poor parents at Bort, Limousin...

    , Éléments de littérature, including rewritten parts of Poétique française (1763
    1763 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In 1763, Charles Churchill's fellow poet and friend, Robert Lloyd was in Fleet Prison for debt...

    ), 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:...

     criticism
  • Évariste-Désiré Parny, Chansons madécasses, prose poems (later set to music by Ravel; 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:...


Births

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  • Richard Henry Dana, Sr.
    Richard Henry Dana, Sr.
    Richard Henry Dana, Sr. was an American poet, critic and lawyer. His son, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., also became a lawyer and author.-Biography:...

     (died 1879
    1879 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation...

    ), American poet, critic and lawyer
  • Margaret Davidson
    Margaret Davidson
    Dame Margaret Davidson DBE was the British wife of the Colonial Governor of New South Wales, Sir Walter Edward Davidson...

     (US)
  • Mary Russell Mitford
    Mary Russell Mitford
    Mary Russell Mitford , was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village...

     (died 1855
    1855 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Charles Heavysege:**The revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts ** Sonnets Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or...

    ), 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...

     novelist, poet and dramatist
  • Bryan Procter
    Bryan Procter
    Bryan Waller Procter was an English poet.Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, he was educated at Harrow School, where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel. On leaving school he was placed in the office of a solicitor at Calne, Wiltshire, remaining there until about 1807, when he returned to...

     (died 1874
    1874 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:-United Kingdom:* Alfred Austin, The Tower of Babel* Robert William Dale, The English Hymn Book...

    ), 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

Deaths

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  • Moses Browne
    Moses Browne
    Moses Browne was a pen-cutter from Clerkenwell, London, England who became a poet and eventually rose amongst the ranks of the Church of England....

     (born 1704
    1704 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-- From William Shippen's, Faction Display'd, the work of a Tory poet on the powerful Whig publisher Jacob Tonson whose series of anthologies, known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies used the...

    ), 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 and clergyman
  • Soame Jenyns
    Soame Jenyns
    Soame Jenyns was an English writer.- Biography :He was the son of Sir Roger Jenyns and his second wife Elizabeth Soame, the daughter of Sir Peter Soame. He was born in London, and was educated at St Johns College, Cambridge. In 1742 he was chosen M.P...

     (born 1704
    1704 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-- From William Shippen's, Faction Display'd, the work of a Tory poet on the powerful Whig publisher Jacob Tonson whose series of anthologies, known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies used the...

    ), 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...

     writer and poet
  • Agatha Lovisa de la Myle
    Agatha Lovisa de la Myle
    Agatha Lovisa de la Myle née Brumengeber , was a Finnish poet and correspondent, "lady of letters"....

     (born 1724
    1724 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Matthew Concanen, editor, Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated...

    ), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
  • Robert Lowth
    Robert Lowth
    Robert Lowth FRS was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.-Life:...

     (born 1710
    1710 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Examiner, a literary periodical, first issued, founded by Henry St...

    ), Bishop of the Church of England, poet, professor of poetry at Oxford University, grammarian who wrote one of the most influential textbooks on English grammar
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