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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
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French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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United KingdomEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, The Siege of Jerusalem
- Thomas ChattertonThomas ChattertonThomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease.-Childhood:...
:- Elinoure and Juga, the first of his "Rowley Poems," published in Town and Country Magazine in May
- Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769
- Richard Hurd, Ancient and Modern Scots Songs
- John Ogilvie, Paradise, published anonymously
- Clara ReeveClara ReeveClara Reeve was an English novelist, best known for her Gothic fiction work The Old English Baron .Reeve was born in Ipswich, England, one of the eight children of Reverend Willian Reeve, M.A., Rector of Freston and of Kreson in Suffolk, and perpetual curate of St Nicholas...
, Original Poems on several Occasions - Tobias SmollettTobias SmollettTobias George Smollett was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens.-Life:Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton,...
, The History and Adventures of an AtomThe History and Adventures of an AtomThe History and Adventures of an Atom, by Tobias Smollett, is a novel that savagely satirises English politics during the Seven Years' War....
, published anonymously
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- Jacques DelilleJacques DelilleJacques Delille was a French poet and translator. He was born at Aigueperse in Auvergne.-Life:He was an illegitimate child, and was descended by his mother from the chancellor De l'Hôpital. He was educated at the College of Lisieux in Paris and became an elementary teacher...
, verse translation of VirgilVirgilPublius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
's GeorgicsGeorgicsThe Georgics is a poem in four books, likely published in 29 BC. It is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. It is a poem that draws on many prior sources and influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present...
from the original LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
into French; the translation led to the author's award of the chair of Latin poetry at the Collège de FranceCollège de FranceThe Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
and membership in the Académie FrançaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
in 1774 - Basílio da GamaBasílio da GamaJosé Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai...
, O UraguaiO Uraguai"O Uraguai" is an epic poem by the Brazilian writer Basílio da Gama. This poem is a noted example of the Arcadianism and Indianism in Brazilian Literature...
, an epic Brazilian poem - Jean-François, marquis de Saint-LambertJean François de Saint-LambertJean François de Saint-Lambert was a French poet and military officer, but he is most remembered for his involvement in two love affairs....
, Saisons, modeled on Thomson's Seasons - Martin Wieland, Musarion, Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Ernst Moritz ArndtErnst Moritz ArndtErnst Moritz Arndt was a German nationalistic and antisemitic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions...
(died 18601860 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Charles Heavysege, Count Filippo* Charles Sangster, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics-United Kingdom:...
), German patriotic author and poet - Ann Batten Cristall
- John Hookham FrereJohn Hookham FrereJohn Hookham Frere PC was an English diplomat and author.Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, the member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and would have been senior wrangler in 1763 but for the competition of William Paley; his mother, Jane,...
(died 18461846 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life...
), English diplomat, poet and author - George HoweGeorge HoweGeorge Howe was the first Australian editor, poet and early printer.Howe was the son of Thomas Howe, a government printer on Basseterre, Saint Christopher Island in the West Indies. When about 21 he went to London and worked as a printer in The Times office...
(died 18211821 in poetry— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his requestNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia...
), Australian - Amelia OpieAmelia OpieAmelia Opie, née Alderson , was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828.-Life and work:...
(died 18531853 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools...
), English poet, author
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- November 27 – Kamo no MabuchiKamo no Mabuchiwas a Japanese poet and philologist of the Edo period.Mabuchi conducted research into the spirit of ancient Japan through his studies of the Man'yōshū and other works of ancient literature...
賀茂真淵 (born 16971697 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Familiar Letters: Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester. And several other Persons of Honour and Quality, 2 volumes, London: Printed by W...
), JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
Edo periodEdo periodThe , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
poet and philologist - December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott GellertChristian Fürchtegott GellertChristian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.-Biography:...
(born 17151715 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Susanna Centlivre, A Poem. Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland...
), German poet - Also:
- William FalconerWilliam FalconerWilliam Falconer was a Scottish poet.Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, The Shipwreck , a work of...
(born 17321732 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke :...
), Scottish poet, died from drowning - Sneyd Davies (born 17091709 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is... - James MerrickJames MerrickJames Merrick was an English poet and scholar; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1742: fellow, 1745: ordained, but lived in college. It is said that "[h]e entered into holy orders, but never could engage in parochial duty, from being subject to excessive pains in his head"...
(born 17201720 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Jane Brereton, An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and scholar
- William Falconer
See also
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 18th century in poetry18th century in poetry-Decades and years:...
- 18th century in literature18th century in literatureSee also: 18th century in poetry, 17th century in literature, other events of the 18th century, 19th century in literature, list of years in literature.Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the 18th century....
- French literature of the 18th centuryFrench literature of the 18th century18th-century French literature is French literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798, the year of the coup d’État of Bonaparte which brought the Consulate to power, concluded the French Revolution, and began the modern era of French history...
- Sturm und DrangSturm und DrangSturm und Drang is a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s, in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism...
(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
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...