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1793 poetry literature
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Events
Summer – William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales (passing by Tintern Abbey). His first poems are published this year.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Works published
United Kingdom
thumb|right|Title page of The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker
William Blake:
America: A prophecy, illuminated book with 18 relief-etched plates
For Children, illuminated book with 18 intaglio plates
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, illuminated book with 11 relief-etched plates
Lady Sophia Burell, Poems
Robert Burns, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology, anthology
Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants, dedicated to William Cowper
George Thomson, A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, published in four volumes from this year to 1799; Volume 1 has 59 songs by Robert Burns
William Wordsworth:
Descriptive Sketches
An Evening Walk
Ann Yearsley, Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI
United States
Richard Alsop, American PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Ann Eliza Bleecker, The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, including 36 poems, 23 letters, an unfinished short historical novel, and a captivity narrative (also including Margarette Faugeres's A Collection of Essays, Prose and Poetical), prose and poetry
Philip Freneau, "On the Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille", in which the French Revolution is endorsedCarruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
Elihu Hubbard Smith, editor, American Poems, Selected and Original, the first notable American poetry anthology; contains poems largely from the Hartford Wits group of Connecticut poets, including poems by friends of Smith such as John Trumbull, Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight and Lemuel Hopkins, as well as Philip Freneau, William Livingston, Sarah Wentworth Morton and Robert Treat Paine; Litchfield, Connecticut: Printed by Collier and Buel;Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
Other
Solomon Gessner, works, translated into French from the original German of the Swiss poet; in three volumes, published starting 1786, with the last volume published this year; posthumous after 1788
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
June 1 – Henry Francis Lyte (died 1847), Scottish-born Anglican priest and hymn-writer
July 13 – John Clare (died 1864), English "peasant poet"
August 25 – John Neal (died 1876), eccentric and influential American writer, critic, lecturer, and activist
September 25 – Felicia Hemans (died 1835), English poet
October 11 – Maria James (died 1868), Welsh-born American poet and domestic servant
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 29 – Charlotte Brooke (born c. 1740), Irish poet
July 4 – Antoine-Marin Lemierre (born 1733), French poet and playwright
September 16 – Johann Adolf Schlegel (born 1721), German poet and pastor
See also
Poetry
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Notes
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