1769 in poetry

none 1769 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events May – First publication of one of 16-year-old English poet Thomas Chatterton's poems attributed to the imaginary medieval monk "Thomas Rowley", "Elinoure and Juga", in Alexander Hamilton's Town and Country Magazine. This year also Chatterton sends specimens of "Rowley"’s poetry and history The Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Englade to Horace Walpole who at first offers to print them but, discovering Chatterton's age and rightly considering the pieces might be forgeries, later scornfully dismisses him.Meyerstein Edward Harry William E. H. W. Meyerstein A Life of Thomas Chatterton London Ingpen and Grant 1930 Works published United Kingdom Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, The Siege of Jerusalem, drama Thomas Chatterton, "Elinoure and Juga" Thomas Gray, Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Richard Hurd, Ancient and Modern Scots Songs John Ogilvie, Paradise, published anonymously Clara Reeve, Original Poems on several Occasions Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom, published anonymously Other Jacques Delille, verse translation of Virgil's Georgics from the original Latin into French; the translation led to the author's award of the chair of Latin poetry at the Collège de France and membership in the Académie Française in 1774France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 226, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) 0-19-866125-8 Basílio da Gama, O Uraguai, an epic Brazilian poem Jean-François, marquis de Saint-Lambert, Saisons, modeled on Thomson's SeasonsFrance, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 734, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) 0-19-866125-8 Martin Wieland, Musarion, GermanyThomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909. Retrieved 14 December 2009. Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: May 21 – John Hookham Frere (died 1846), English diplomat, poet and author November 12 – Amelia Opie (died 1853), English novelist and poet December 7 (bapt.) – Ann Batten Cristall (died 1848), English poet December 26 – Ernst Moritz Arndt (died 1860), German patriotic author and poet Also: Robert Hetrick (died 1849), Scottish poet and blacksmith George Howe (died 1821), Saint Christopher Island-born Australian printer and poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 5 – James Merrick (born 1720), English poet and scholar January 20 – Sneyd Davies (born 1709), English poet and churchman"The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). / Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. / VII. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson. / Bibliography." Retrieved 10 February 2009. November 27 – Kamo no Mabuchi 賀茂真淵 (born 1697), Japanese Edo period poet and philologist December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (born 1715), German poet See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature 18th century in poetry 18th century in literature French literature of the 18th century 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 List of years in poetry Poetry Notes Category:18th-century poetry Poetry