1773 in poetry
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Events
- May 4 – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes the keen Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire.[1]
- epic poem Vila Rica, relating the history of the homonymous Brazilian city, modern-day Ouro Preto; it is not published until 1839.
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock publishes the last five cantos of his epic poem Der Messias in Hamburg.
- William Cowper, living at Olney, Buckinghamshire, experiences mental disturbances, believing himself condemned to damnation.
Works published
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Poems[2]
- Thomas Day, The Dying Negro,[2] Occasioned by the incident, as described in the advertisement published with the poem, about "A black who, a few days before, had run away from his master, and got himself christened, with intent to marry a white woman, his fellow-servant, being taken and sent on board a ship in the Thames, took an opportunity of shooting himself through the head";[3] a very popular poem, one of the earliest anti-slavery works of literature in Britain, with co-author John Bicknell
- Johannes Ewald, Rungsteds Lyksaligheder
- Robert Fergusson:
- Richard Graves, The Love of Order, published anonymously[2]
- Edward Jerningham, Faldoni and Teresa[2]
- George Keate, The Monument in Arcadia[2]
- William Mason, An Heroic Epistle o Sir William Chambers
- Samuel Mather, "The Sacred Minister", English, Colonial America[4]
- Hannah More, A Search after Happiness, "by a young lady"[2]
- Thomas Scott (of Ipswich), Lyric Poems, Devotional and Moral, the book includes most of the author's poems[2]
- Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and the Earl of Dartmouthhelped with the publication.
- John Wolcot, Persian Love Elegies[2]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 31 – Germanpoet, translator, editor, novelist and critic
- August 21 – Jens Christian Djurhuus (died 1853), Faroese poet
- December 9 – Robert Treat Paine Jr. (died 1811), American poet and editor (son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence)[5]
- Joseph Harris (Gomer) (died 1825), Welsh Baptist minister, poet, writer and editor
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 5 – Philip Francis (born 1708), Irish-born English translator of the works of Horace, poet, playwright and clergyman[2]
- March 24 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (Lord Chesterfield) (born 1694) English statesman and man of letters
- August 3 – Stanisław Konarski (actual name: Hieronim Konarski) (born 1700), Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist friar and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment
- August 24 – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (born 1709), English statesman, patron of the arts and poet[2]
- September 18 – John Cunningham (born 1729), Irish-born poet, dramatist and actor, working in Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
- November 7 – Andrew Brice (born 1690), English printer and writer
- November 16 – John Hawkesworth (born c. 1715), English editor and poet
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
- Germanliterature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
- List of years in poetry
- Poetry
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-86278-780-6.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Gates, Henry Louis, editor, The Classic Slave Narratives, p 102, Signet Classics, 2002
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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