1782 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
United Kingdom
- William Cowper
- The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published anonymously in the Public Advertiser on November 14 (published with The Task 1785)[1]
- Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
- Poems (see also Poems 1815)[1]
- John Freeth, Modern Songs, on Various Subjects[1]
- William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason[1]
- William Mason:
- An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles ... Editor of a Superb Edition of the Poems of Thomas Rowley, attributed to Mason; written in the Rowleian dialect (see Thomas Chatterton's Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written ... by Thomas Rowley 1777)[1]
- King Stephen's Watch[1]
- Hannah More, Sacred Dramas, Chiefly intended for Young Persons, published anonymously, went through 24 editions by 1829[1]
- Edward Rushton, The Dismember'd Empire, published anonymously; attribution uncertain[1]
- John Scott, The Poetical Works of John Scott[1]
- John Walters, Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry
- Joseph Warton, Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 (Volume 1 published in 1756), criticism
- Helen Maria Williams, Edwin and Eltruda[1]
- John Wolcot writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (see also More Lyric Odes 1783)[1]
Other
- Jacques Delille, Les Jardins ("The Gardens"), France[2]
- John Trumbull, M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos,[3] a satirical poem about American Tories during the American Revolution, is published in completed form (first two cantos published in 1778), United States[4]
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Fischerin (Singspiel, including "Der Erlkönig"), Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 30 - Ann Taylor (died 1866), English poet and literary critic
- September 19 - Richard Lower (died 1865), English dialect poet
- Irayimman Thampi (died 1856), Indian Carnatic music composer and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 12 - Metastasio (born 1698), Italian poet and librettist
- August 27 - Henriette Louise von Hayn (born 1724), German hymn writer
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
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 226, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- ↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
