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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...
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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:...
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Events
- Robert Treat PaineRobert Treat PaineRobert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts.-Early life and ancestors:...
founds the Federal Orrery, a semiweekly Federalist journal in Boston, Massachusetts. It features contributions from Joseph DennieJoseph DennieJoseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled The Lay Preacher and as the founding editor of Port Folio, a journal espousing classical republican values...
and Sarah Wentworth Morton, and includes poetry, satire and criticism.
Works published
United KingdomEnglish poetryThe 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...
- William BlakeWilliam BlakeWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
:- Europe, A Prophecy, illuminated book with 17 relief-etched plates; 12 copies known
- The First Book of UrizenThe Book of UrizenThe Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English writer William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the "First". The book takes its name from the character Urizen in Blake's mythology,...
, illuminated book - Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the two contrary states of the human soul; Songs of Innocence first published separately 17891789 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Ireland:* Charlotte Brooke, Reliques of Irish Poetry, anthology published in the United Kingdom...
), it is thought that Songs of Experience was always published along with Songs of Innocence; the latter work consists of 28 poems, 14 of them paired with poems of the same title in Songs of Innocence; these poems are in Songs of Experience:- Introduction
- "Earth's AnswerEarth's AnswerEarth's Answer is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was originally published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.- The Poem :Earth raised up her headFrom the darkness dread and drear,Her light fled,Stony, dread,...
" - "The Clod and the PebbleThe Clod and the PebbleThe Clod and the Pebble is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.- The Poem :"Love seeketh not Itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care;But for another gives its ease,...
" - "The Sick RoseThe Sick Rose"The Sick Rose" is a poem by William Blake. The first publication was in 1794, when it was included in his collection titled Songs of Experience as the 39th plate. The incipit of the poem is O Rose thou art sick. Blake composed the page sometime after 1789, and presents it with the illuminated...
" - "The Fly"
- "The AngelThe Angel (Songs of Experience)"The Angel" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.- The Poem :I dreamt a dream! What can it mean?And that I was a maiden QueenGuarded by an Angel mild:...
" - "My Pretty Rose TreeMy Pretty Rose TreeMy Pretty Rose Tree is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.- The Poem :A flower was offered to me,Such a flower as May never bore;But I said, ‘I’ve a pretty rose tree,’...
" - "Ah! Sun-Flower"
- "The Lilly"
- "The Garden of LoveThe Garden of Love"The Garden of Love" is a poem by romantic poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection, Songs of Experience."The Garden of Love" is written to express Blake's beliefs on the naturalness of sexuality and how organised religion, particularly the orthodox Christian church of Blake's...
" - "The Little VagabondThe Little VagabondThe Little Vagabond is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.- The Poem :Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;But the Alehouse is healthy, and pleasant, and warm....
" - "LondonLondon (poem)London is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of the few poems in Songs of Experience which does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence.-Analysis:...
" - "A Poison TreeA Poison TreeA Poison Tree is a poem written in 1794 by the poet William Blake as a part of his collection of poems, Songs of Experience. Although it is one of Blake's less known poems, it is full of meaning and is sometimes considered to be one of his finest poems....
" - "A Little Girl LostA Little Girl Lost"A Little Girl Lost" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1794.-References:* , at the - External links :...
" - "To TirzahTo TirzahTo Tirzah is a poem by William Blake that was published in his collection Songs of Experience. It is often described as the most difficult of the poems because it refers to an oblique character called "Tirzah", whose identity remains obscure. Tirzah is apparently to be rejected as a demonic figure...
" - "The School Boy"
- "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"
- "Nurse's SongNurse's SongNurse's Song is the name of two related poems by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794....
" (paired) - "Infant JoyInfant JoyInfant Joy was published in 1789 in 'Songs of Innocence' and is the counterpart to "Infant Sorrow" which was published at a later date in 'Songs of Experience' in 1794....
" (paired) - "The LambThe Lamb"The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. Like many of Blake's works, the poem is about Christianity.-Background:...
" (paired) - "Holy Thursday" (paired)
- "Holy Thursday" (paired)
- "The Chimney SweeperThe Chimney Sweeper"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of two poems by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labor that was well known in England in the late 18th and 19th century. At the age of...
" (paired) - "The Little Boy lost" (paired)
- "The Little Boy Found" (paired)
- "The Divine Image" (paired)
- "The Little Girl LostThe Little Girl Lost"The Little Girl Lost" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. It is followed by "The Little Girl Found".- External links :...
" (paired) - "The Little Girl FoundThe Little Girl FoundThe Little Girl Found is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. In the poem, the parents of a seven-year old girl, called Lyca, are looking desperately for their young daughter who is lost in the desert...
" (paired) - "The TygerThe Tyger"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794 . It is one of Blake's best-known and most analyzed poems...
" (paired) - "The Human AbstractThe Human AbstractThe Human Abstract is an American progressive metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 2004, the group was originally signed to the independent label Hopeless Records, the band then released the two albums Nocturne and Midheaven before signing to E1 Music and releasing Digital Veil...
" (paired) - "Infant SorrowInfant SorrowInfant Sorrow is a poem by William Blake from Songs of Experience.-Poem:Infant SorrowMy mother groan'd! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt...
" (paired)
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
:- To a Young AssTo a Young AssTo a Young Ass was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1794. The poem describes Coleridge's sympathies for animals and the connection to nature he felt as part of his idea of Pantisocracy. It was later used as a means to mock him.-Background:...
, published in the Morning ChronicleMorning ChronicleThe Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862. It was most notable for having been the first employer of Charles Dickens, and for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew which were collected and published in book format in...
, December 9 - Sonnets on Eminent CharactersSonnets on Eminent CharactersSonnets on Eminent Characters or Sonnets on Eminent Contemporaries is an 11 part sonnet series created by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and printed in the Morning Chronicle between 1 December 1794 and 31 January 1795...
, also known as Sonnets on Eminent Contemporaries, a series of 11 sonnets published in the Morning ChronicleMorning ChronicleThe Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862. It was most notable for having been the first employer of Charles Dickens, and for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew which were collected and published in book format in...
from December 1 of this year to January 29, 17951795 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samuel Taylor Coleridge first meets William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy-United Kingdom:* William Blake:...
; these eight were published this year:- To the Hon Mr ErskineTo Erskine"To Erskine" or "To the Hon Mr Erskine" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in November 1794. The subject of the poem is Thomas Erskine, a lawyer and member of the Whig party that successfully served in the defense of three political radicals during the 1794 Treason Trials. Coleridge admired...
(Thomas ErskineThomas Erskine, 1st Baron ErskineThomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine KT PC KC was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.-Background and childhood:...
); published December 1 - To BurkeTo Burke"To Burke" is a sonnet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge first published in the 9 December 1794 Morning Chronicle. Unlike most of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters, "To Burke" describes a person whom Coleridge disagreed with; he felt Edmund Burke abused the idea of freedom within various speeches and...
(Edmund BurkeEdmund BurkeEdmund Burke PC was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party....
); December 9 - To PriestleyTo Priestley"To Priestley" is a sonnet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge first published in the 11 December 1794 Morning Chronicle. Like most of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters, "To Priestley" addresses an individual Coleridge particularly admired; Joseph Priestley held many political and theological beliefs that...
(Joseph PriestleyJoseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
; published December 11 - To FayetteTo Fayette"To Fayette" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in the 26 December 1794 Morning Chronicle as part of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters series. Coleridge, like other Romantic poets, viewed Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette as a hero of liberty for his part in the American and...
(Marquis de Lafayette); December 15 - To KosciuskoTo Kosciusko"To Kosciusko" is a sonnet that was originally written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in December 1794. The poem was published in the 16 December 1794 Morning Chronicle as the fifth of his Sonnets on Eminent Characters series...
(Tadeusz KościuszkoTadeusz KosciuszkoAndrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian and American general and military leader during the Kościuszko Uprising. He is a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus...
); December 16 - To PittTo Pitt"To Pitt" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in the 26 December 1794 Morning Chronicle as part of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters series. Describing William Pitt the Younger and his role as Prime Minister of Great Britain, the poem is one of the few in the series that is not...
(William Pitt the YoungerWilliam Pitt the YoungerWilliam Pitt the Younger was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24 . He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806...
); December 23 - To BowlesTo Bowles"To Bowles" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in the 26 December 1794 Morning Chronicle as part of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters series. William Lisle Bowles's poetry was introduced to Coleridge in 1789 and Bowles had an immediate impact on Coleridge's views of poetry. The...
(William Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle Bowles was an English poet and critic.-Life and career:He was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of fourteen he entered Winchester College, the headmaster at the time being Dr Joseph Warton...
); December 26 - To Mrs SiddonsTo Mrs Siddons"To Mrs Siddons" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in the 29 December 1794 Morning Chronicle as part of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters series. It describes Sarah Siddons, an actress that Coleridge became fond of during his visits to London during college. The poem celebrates...
(Sarah SiddonsSarah SiddonsSarah Siddons was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. She was the elder sister of John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble. She was most famous for her portrayal of the Shakespearean character,...
); December 29
- To the Hon Mr Erskine
- To a Young Ass
- Erasmus DarwinErasmus DarwinErasmus Darwin was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,inventor and poet...
, The Golden Age - Thomas Gisborne, Walks in a Forrest
- Richard Payne KnightRichard Payne KnightRichard Payne Knight was a classical scholar and connoisseur best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.-Biography:...
, The Landscape - Joseph RitsonJoseph RitsonJoseph Ritson was an English antiquary.He was born at Stockton-on-Tees, of a Westmorland yeoman family. He was educated for the law, and settled in London as a conveyancer at the age of twenty-two. He devoted his spare time to literature, and in 1782 published an attack on Thomas Warton's History...
, Scottish Song, anthology
United States
- William Bradford, A Descriptive and Historical Account of new England in Verse, posthumous, written 16501650 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia...
- Timothy DwightTimothy Dwight IVTimothy Dwight was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author...
, Greenfield Hill: A Poem in Seven Parts, an imitation of John DenhamJohn Denham (poet)Sir John Denham was an English poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey....
's Cooper's Hill; contrasts wholesome American village life to depraved Europe, and mentions historical events; written after Dwight became a minister in Greenfield, ConnecticutGreenfield HillGreenfield Hill is an historic neighborhood of Fairfield, Connecticut and is roughly bounded by the Merritt Parkway., Burr Street., Redding Road, Hulls Farm Road., and Hill Farm Road....
; United States - Philip Freneau, The Village Merchant
- Francis HopkinsonFrancis HopkinsonFrancis Hopkinson , an American author, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey. He later served as a federal judge in Pennsylvania...
, Ode from Ossian's Poems
Other
- Thomas RussellThomas Russell (rebel)Thomas Paliser Russell was a co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen was executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion in 1803.-Background:...
, "The Negro's Complaint", anti-slavery poem, published November 5; IrelandIrish poetryThe 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...
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Maria Gowen BrooksMaria Gowen BrooksMaria Gowen Brooks was an American poet.-Biography:She was born Abigail Gowen in Medford, Massachusetts. Her father was a man of literary tastes, and she was exposed to a lot of poetry at home; by age nine, she had memorized a large quantity of prose. Unfortunately, when Abigail was 13, her...
, (died 18451845 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 10—Robert Browning, 32, and Elizabeth Barrett, 38, begin their correspondence when she receives a note declaring "I love you" from Browning, a little-known poet whose verses she had...
, year of death uncertain), American poet - William Cullen BryantWilliam Cullen BryantWilliam Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.-Youth and education:...
(died 18781878 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it ...
), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post - Carlos WilcoxCarlos WilcoxCarlos Wilcox was a minor American poet.Born at Newport, New Hampshire, Wilcox was a Congregationalist minister. He wrote a poem, The Age of Benevolence, which was left unfinished, and which was clearly influenced by the work of William Cowper.-References:...
(died 18271827 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Bernard Barton, A Widow's Tale, and Other Poems* Robert Bloomfield, The Poems of Robert Bloomfield...
), American poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- January 8 – Justus MöserJustus MöserJustus Möser was a German jurist and social theorist.Having studied law at the universities of Jena and Göttingen, he settled in his native town as a lawyer and was soon appointed advocatus patriae by his fellow citizens...
(born 17201720 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Jane Brereton, An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr...
), German jurist, social theorist - Gottfried August BürgerGottfried August BürgerGottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English adaptation and a French translation.-Biography:He was born in Molmerswende , Principality of Halberstadt, where...
, German poet (born 17481748 in poetryNationality 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...
) - Susanna BlamireSusanna BlamireSusanna Blamire , poet, was of good Cumberland family, and received the sobriquet of The Muse of Cumberland. Her poems, which were not collected until 1842, depict Cumbrian life and manners with truth and vivacity...
(born 17471747 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir William Blackstone, The Panthion, published anonymously, attribution uncertain* William Dunkin, Boeotia...
), poet and writer of Scottish songs - André ChenierAndré ChénierAndré Marie Chénier was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement...
(born 17621762 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* Thomas Godfrey, "The Court of Fancy: A Poem", English, Colonial America* Francis Hopkinson, English, Colonial America:...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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 executed two days before the fall of Robespierre. A free spirit who spoke his mind, had pronounced sympathies with the aristocracy but adhered to no particular group, Chenier had attacked the Jacobins in the Journal de Paris, then became quiet and lived outside Paris during The TerrorReign of TerrorThe Reign of Terror , also known simply as The Terror , was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of...
. He was arrested and held in Saint-Lazarre prison before his execution. - Alison CockburnAlison CockburnAlison Cockburn also Alison Rutherford, or Alicia Cockburn was a Scottish poet, wit and socialite who collected a circle of eminent friends in 18th century enlightenment Edinburgh including Walter Scott, Robert Burns and David Hume.-Life:Born at Fairnilee House, in the Scottish Borders, between...
(born 17131713 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Henry Carey, Poems on Several Occasions, including "Sally in our Alley", and "Namby-Pamby", written to ridicule Ambrose Philips* Abel Evans, Vertumnus* Anne Finch, countess of Winchelsea,...
), Scots poet (née Rutherford)