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Works published

English Colonial America

• Jane Dunlap, Poems upon Several Sermons Preached by the Rev'd George Whitefield, Colonial Massachusetts
• Levi Frisbie, "A Poem on the Rise and Progress of Moor's Indian Charity School", English, Colonial America
• John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Buckingham St. John", English, Colonial America

United Kingdom

• James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book 1, (Book 2: The English Garden 1774, in 4 volumes 1771–1781)
• James Cawthorn, Poems
• John Langhorne, The Fables of Flora
• Henry Mackenzie, Pursuits of Happiness, published anonymously after a stay in London; Scottish
• Thomas Percy, The Hermit of Warkworth, published anonymously
• Henry James Pye, The Triumph of Fashion
• John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, published in 32 volumes (1771–1774) by the Methodist divine and hymn writer

Other

• Ambrosius Stub, Arier og andre poetiske Stykker ("Arier and Other Poetic Works"), edited by T. S. Heiberg; Denmark, posthumous
• Martin Wieland, New Amadis, a comic poem in 18 cantos; Germany

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• April 7 – William Wordsworth (died 1850), English poet
• Thomas John Dibdin (died 1841), English dramatist and song-writer
• Thomas Green Fessenden, (died 1837), American
• Liang Desheng (died 1847), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
• James Montgomery (died 1854), English editor and poet
• Sir Walter Scott (died 1832), Scottish historical novelist and poet
• Sydney Smith (died 1845), English writer and Anglican clergyman
• Dorothy Wordsworth (died 1855), English author, poet and diarist

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• July 30 – Thomas Gray (born 1716), English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous 1750 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• August 19 – Daniel Schiebeler (born 1741), German writer and poet
• December 23 – Johann Friedrich Löwen (born 1727), German poet, intellectual, drama theorist and at one time a confidant of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Samuel Bowden
• John Gambold
• Christopher Smart (born 1722), English poet
• Tobias Smollett (born 1721), Scottish poet and author

See also

• 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

1. Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
4. Web page titled "Henry Mackenzie", a reprint from an article by William Anderson, in Scottish Nation (1859-66), "3:23-25", retrieved June 28, 2009
5. Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009
6. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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