1778 in poetry explained

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

See main article: 1778.

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen Sonnets^[1]
• William Combe, The Auction^[1]
• George Ellis, writing under the pen name "Sir Gregory Gander", Poetical Tales^[1]
• William Hayley, A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter, published anonymously; addressed to George Romney^[1]
• Vicesimus Knox, Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists, a critical essay^[2]
• John Scott, Moral Eclogues, published anonymously^[1]
• Percival Stockdale, Inquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular Defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope^[2]
• John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers^[1]

United States

• Joel Barlow, The Prospect of Peace^[3]
• William Billings, Chester^[3]
• Francis Hopkinson:
  • "The Battle of the Kegs", United States^[4]
  • "Date Obolum Bellisario"^[3]
  • "The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat"^[3]

Works published in other languages

• Ippolit Bogdanovich, Dushenka, a long poem and his best-known work, Russia
• Johannes Ewald, Kong Christian stod ved höjen Mast ("King Christian Stood by the Lofty mast"), a popular song in his melodrama The Fishermen, which later became the Danish national anthem (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later translated it into English)^[5]
• Johann Gottfried Herder - Volkslieder nebst untermischten anderen Stücken
• Évariste de Parny - Les Poésies érotiques

Births

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

• February 6  - Ugo Foscolo (died 1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
• April 10  - William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer, essayist and critic
• August 22  - James Kirke Paulding (died 1860), American novelist, poet and United States Secretary of the Navy;^[6] a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed
• September 9  - Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
• December 22  - Anna Maria Porter (died 1832), English poet and novelist
• Robert Davidson (died 1855), Scottish peasant poet

Deaths

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

• May 30  - Voltaire (born 1694), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
• August 11  - Augustus Toplady (born 1740), English Anglican clergyman, poet and hymn-writer
• Rob Donn (born 1714), Scottish Gaelic poet

See also

• 18th century in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• French literature of the 18th century
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 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

Notes and References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 50, Franklin, Burt, 1971,, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602 - 1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
5. Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 178, Dial Press, 1938, New York
6. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009