1783 in poetry
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Works published
United Kingdom
- Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
- William Blake, Poetical Sketches[1]
- Jane Cave (later, Jane Wiscom), Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious[1]
- Judith Cowper (later, Judith Madan), The Progress of Poetry[1]
- George Crabbe, The Village[1]
- John Hoole translator, Orlando Furioso
- Joseph Ritson, editor, A Select Collection of English Songs, anthology[1]
- John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (Lyric Odes 1782)[1]
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 3 – Washington Irving (died 1859), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
- April 21 – Reginald Heber (died 1826), English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
- September 8 – Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politician[3]
- September 23 – Jane Taylor (died 1824), English poet and novelist
- December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez (died c.1873), Puerto Rican poet and playwright
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
- January 10 – Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English clergyman, playwright, poet and author
- July 7 – German
- July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般), and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
- October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright
- November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
- December 12 – John Scott, 53 (born 1731), English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
- Approximate date – John Seccomb (born 1708), American clergyman and poet[4]
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 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books