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1783 poetry literature
This article covers 1783 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
thumb|right|150px|American poet Ann Eliza Bleecker died this year (engraving from frontispiece of Posthumous Works, 1793)
Works published
United Kingdom
Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
William Blake, Poetical SketchesCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Robert Burns, "Now Westlin' Winds" or "Composed in August" (written)
Jane Cave (later, Jane Wiscom), Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious
Judith Cowper (later, Judith Madan), The Progress of Poetry
George Crabbe, The Village
John Hoole translator, Orlando Furioso
Joseph Ritson, editor, A Select Collection of English Songs, anthology
John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (Lyric Odes 1782)
Other
David Humphreys, United States:
The Glory of America; or Peace Triumphant over WarLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Poem on the Industry of the United States of America
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 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (died 1872), Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politicianPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
January 10 – Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English clergyman, playwright, poet and author
July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), 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 poetBurt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
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
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