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1778 poetry literature
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Events
1778
Works published in English
United Kingdom
John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen SonnetsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
William Combe, The Auction
George Ellis, writing under the pen name "Sir Gregory Gander", Poetical Tales
William Hayley, A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter, published anonymously; addressed to George Romney
Vicesimus Knox, Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists, a critical essayClark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 50, Franklin, Burt, 1971, 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
John Scott, Moral Eclogues, published anonymously
Percival Stockdale, Inquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular Defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope
John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers
United States
Joel Barlow, The Prospect of PeaceLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
William Billings, Chester
Francis Hopkinson:
"The Battle of the Kegs", United StatesCarruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
"Date Obolum Bellisario"
"The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat"
Works published in other languages
Ippolit Bogdanovich, Dushenka, a long poem and his best-known work, Russia
Johannes Ewald, Kong Christian stod ved höjen Mast ("King Christian Stood by the Lofty mast"), a popular song in his melodrama The Fishermen, which later became the Danish national anthem (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later translated it into English)Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 178, Dial Press, 1938, New York
Johann Gottfried Herder - Volkslieder nebst untermischten anderen Stücken
Évariste de Parny - Les Poésies érotiques
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 6 – Ugo Foscolo (died 1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
April 10 – William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer, essayist and critic
August 22 – James Kirke Paulding (died 1860), American novelist, poet and United States Secretary of the Navy;Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009 a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed
September 9 – Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
December 22 – Anna Maria Porter (died 1832), English poet and novelist
Robert Davidson (died 1855), Scottish peasant poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 30 – Voltaire (born 1694), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
August 11 – Augustus Toplady (born 1740), English Anglican clergyman, poet and hymn-writer
Rob Donn (born 1714), Scottish Gaelic poet
See also
Poetry
18th century in literature
18th century in poetry
French literature of the 18th century
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
Notes
Category:18th-century poetry
Poetry