1794 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• June –
  Robespierre's execution in July) they collaborate on the "historic drama" The Fall of Robespierre
  , published in October and Southey's first published poetry; he also writes the radical play Wat Tyler this summer.
• July 25 –
  Prison Saint-Lazare before his execution.^[2]
• Sarah Wentworth Morton, and includes poetry, satire and criticism.^[3]

United Kingdom

• William Blake:
  • Europe, A Prophecy, illuminated book with 17 relief-etched plates; 12 copies known^[4]
  • The First Book of Urizen, illuminated book^[4]
  • of Experience: Shewing the two contrary states of the human soul;^[4] Songs of Innocence first published separately 1789
    ), 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 Answer"
    • "The Clod and the Pebble"
    • "The Sick Rose"
    • "The Fly"
    • "The Angel"
    • "My Pretty Rose Tree"
    • "
      Ah! Sun-Flower
      "
    • "The Lilly"
    • "The Garden of Love"
    • "The Little Vagabond"
    • "London"
    • "A Poison Tree"
    • "A Little Girl Lost"
    • "To Tirzah"
    • "The School Boy"
    • "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"
    • "Nurse's Song" (paired)
    • "Infant Joy" (paired)
    • "The Lamb" (paired)
    • "Holy Thursday" (paired)
    • "Holy Thursday" (paired)
    • "The Chimney Sweeper" (paired)
    • "The Little Boy Lost" (paired)
    • "The Little Boy Found" (paired)
    • "
      The Divine Image
      " (paired)
    • "The Little Girl Lost" (paired)
    • "The Little Girl Found" (paired)
    • "The Tyger" (paired)
    • "The Human Abstract" (paired)
    • "Infant Sorrow" (paired)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  • Morning Chronicle
    , December 9
  • Morning Chronicle from December 1 of this year to January 29, 1795
    ; these eight were published this year:
    • To the Hon Mr Erskine (Thomas Erskine); published December 1
    • To Burke (Edmund Burke); December 9
    • To Priestley (Joseph Priestley; published December 11
    • Marquis de Lafayette
      ); December 15
    • To Kosciusko (Tadeusz Kościuszko); December 16
    • To Pitt (William Pitt the Younger); December 23
    • To Bowles (William Lisle Bowles); December 26
    • To Mrs Siddons (Sarah Siddons); December 29
• Erasmus Darwin, The Golden Age^[4]
• Thomas Gisborne, Walks in a Forrest^[4]
• Richard Payne Knight, The Landscape^[4]
• Joseph Ritson, Scottish Song, anthology^[4]
• Robert Southey and Robert Lovell, Poems by Bion and Moschus

• September 9 – John Hamilton Reynolds (died 1852), English poet, satirist, critic and playwright
• October 22 – Carlos Wilcox (died 1827), American poet
• November 3 –
  New York Evening Post
• Approximate date – Maria Gowen Brooks (died c. 1845), American poet^[7]

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 8 –
  German
  jurist and social theorist
• March 26 –
  German
  poet
• April 5 – Susanna Blamire (born 1747), English poet and writer of Scottish (Lallans) songs
• June 8 –
  German
  poet
• July 25 – André Chénier (born 1762), French poet, executed
• November 22 –
  Scottish
  writer and literary hostess

See also

• Poetry

Notes