1777 in poetry

none 1777 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events March 1 (Saint David's Day) – Welsh ship's surgeon David Samwell, on board HMS Resolution in the Pacific Ocean on the second voyage of James Cook, writes a penillion. Works published United Kingdom Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published February 8 (see also Tyrwhitt, A Vindication 1782)Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 William Combe: The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition Paul Whitehead, Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions United States Anonymous, Song: made on the taking of General Burgoyne, a broadside of 21 four-line verses, published with no information on the place or printerEvans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 349, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949 Anonymous ("H. I."), Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all y rebellion's (sic), "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pagesEvans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 319, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949 Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at SinaiLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad" Other Solomon Gessner, works, German-language, Switzerland; in two volumes, published this year and in 1777 Pierre Le Tourneur, Poésies galliques, translation into French from the original English of James Macpherson's Ossian poemsFrance, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 456, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) 0-19-866125-8 Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 27 – Lukijan Mušicki (died 1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot March 14 – John Blair Linn (died 1804), AmericanWeb page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009 July 27 – Thomas Campbell (died 1844), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs December 2 – Hendrik Doeff (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator, editor and composer February 3 – Hugh Kelly (born 1739), Irish poet and dramatist March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician August 26 – Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator September 24 (bur.) – James Fortescue (born 1716), English October 12 (October 1 O.S.) – Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and dramatist December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German 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