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1780 poetry literature
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Works published
United Kingdom
Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Aragon, Part 1 (complete work first published in The Works of mrs Cowley 1813)Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
George Crabbe, The Candidate, published anonymously in July
Herbert Croft, The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980, published anonymously; satirical epitaphs on contemporary public figures
Susannah Harrison, Songs in the Night, "By a Young Woman Under Deep Afflictions", the book went into 15 editions by 1823
William Hayley, An Essay on History
Anna Seward, Elegy on Captain Cook, on James Cook, who died February 13, 1779, in Hawaii
United States
John Andre, "Cow-Chace, in Three Cantos, Published on Occasion of the Rebel General Wayne's Attack of the Refugees Block-House on Hudson's river, on Friday the 21st of July, 1780Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Joel Barlow, An Elegy on the Late Honorahble Titus Hosmer
Samuel Dexter, The Progress of Science
Timothy Dwight IV, attributed, America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies
Jonathan Odell, attributed, "The American Times"
Other
Christoph Martin Wieland, Oberon, Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 29 – Walter Watson (died 1854), Scottish poet and weaver
April 29 – Charles Nodier (died 1844), French philologist, novelist, poet and librarian
August 17 – George Croly (died 1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and clergyman
September 11 (bapt.) – John Marriott (died 1825), English clergyman and poet
Paul Moon James (died 1854), English Quaker banker and poet
Jahonotin Uvaysiy (died 1845), Uzbek Sufi poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 18 – Kristijonas Donelaitis (born 1714), Lithuanian poet
September 6 – George Alexander Stevens (born 1710), English performer, playwright, poet and songwriter
October 3 – Cynthia Lenige (born 1755), Frisian Dutch poet
Angom Gopi (born 1710), Indian, Meitei language poet, writer and translator
Joseph Green (born 1706), Colonial American poet, satirist and clergyman
Antonina Niemiryczowa (born 1702), Polish 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
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