1781 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke asking for financial assistance. The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- William Cowper, Anti-Thelyphthora, published anonymously (see also Martin Madan's Thelyphthora 1780)[2]
- George Crabbe, The Library, published anonymously[2]
- Anne Francis, A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon[2]
- William Hayley, The Triumphs of Temper[2]
- George Keate, Poetical Works[2]
- Samuel Jackson Pratt, Sympathy; or, A Sketch of the Social Passion, published anonymously[2]
- Anna Seward, Monody on Major André, on John André, hanged as a spy in the American Revolution
United States
- Philip Freneau, The British Prison-Ship: A Poem[3]
- William Hayley, "The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem"[3]
- Francis Hopkinson, The Temple of Minerva[3]
- Anna Seward, Monody on Major Andre[3]
Other
- Brazil
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 26 – Germanpoet and novelist
- March 17 – Corn Lawrhymer
- September 12 – Scottishpoet
- November 6 – Lucy Aikin (died 1864), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator
- November 29 – Andrés Bello (died 1865), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
- December 25? – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet, shot
- February 15 – Germanpoet
- March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet[4]
- May 8 – Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet
- June 25 – Germanpoet
- November 4 – Germanpoet
- Persiananthologist 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
- ^ Ainger, Alfred (1903). Crabbe. New York: Macmillan. pp. 31–32.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.
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