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Events

• April 17 – The Edinburgh edition of Scottish poet Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by William Creech including a portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth. Burns has great social success in the city's literary circles; 16-year-old Walter Scott meets him at the house of Adam Ferguson. On December 4 he meets Agnes Maclehose at a party given by Miss Erskine Nimmo. ^[1]

Works published

United Kingdom

Ann Yearsley, in an engraving published this year

• Robert Burns:
  • Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (see also the editions of 1786, 1793) ^[2]
  • see also Richard Glover's The Scots Musical Museum, below
• Anne Francis, Charlotte to Werter ^[2]
• Richard Glover, The Atheniad ^[2]
• James Johnson, editor, The Scots Musical Museum, an anthology with 177 of the 600 songs written by Robert Burns, who had collected many of the others; published in six volumes from this year to 1803; Volumes 2–5 edited by Burns ^[2]
• George Keate, The Distressed Poet ^[2]
• Sophia Lee, A Hermit's Tale, published anonymously ^[2]
• Robert Merry, Paulina; or, The Russian Daughter ^[2]
• John Ogilvie, The Fame of the Druids, published anonymously ^[2]
• Henry James Pye, Poems on Various Subjects, including "Aerophorion", possibly the first poem about an aviator (James Sadler (balloonist))
• Edward Rushton, West-Indian Eclogues, published anonymously ^[2]
• John Thelwall, Poems on Various Subjects ^[2]
• John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Ode Upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James ^[2]
• Ann Yearsley, Poems, on Various Subjects ^[2]

United States

• Joel Barlow, The Vision of Columbus , nine books; describes America as prosperous and improving, seeks to promote "the love of national liberty" in Americans (revised as The Columbiad 1807) ^[3]
• James Beattie, Poems on Several Occasions ^[4]
• Peter Markoe, Miscellaneous Poems ^[3]

Other

• Jean-François Marmontel, Éléments de littérature, including rewritten parts of Poétique française (1763), French criticism ^[5]
• Évariste-Désiré Parny, Chansons madécasses, prose poems (later set to music by Ravel; France ^[6]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 14 – Alexander Laing (died 1857), Scottish poet
• November 15 – Richard Henry Dana Sr. (died 1879), American poet, critic and lawyer
• November 21 – Bryan Procter ("Barry Cornwall") (died 1874), English poet
• December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford (died 1855), English novelist, poet and dramatist
• Margaret Miller Davidson, Sr. (died 1844), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson
• Susanna Hawkins (died 1868), Scottish poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 13 – Ruđer Bošković (born 1711), Ragusan polymath and poet
• September 1 – Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (born 1724), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
• September – Moses Browne (born 1704), English poet and clergyman
• November 3 – Robert Lowth (born 1710), English Anglican Bishop, poet, professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, grammarian who wrote one of the most influential textbooks on English grammar
• December 18 – Soame Jenyns (born 1704), English writer and poet

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry

Notes

1. Hecht, Hans (1936). Robert Burns: The Man and His Work. London: William Hodge. p. 106.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-860634-6.
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN   978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
5. France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 501, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN   0-19-866125-8
6. France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 599, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN   0-19-866125-8