1783 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1783 in poetry

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Events

Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
William Blake, Poetical Sketches^[1]
Jane Cave (later, Jane Wiscom), Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious^[1]
Judith Cowper (later, Judith Madan), The Progress of Poetry^[1]
George Crabbe, The Village^[1]
John Hoole translator, Orlando Furioso
Joseph Ritson, editor, A Select Collection of English Songs, anthology^[1]
John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (Lyric Odes 1782)^[1]

David Humphreys, United States:
- The Glory of America; or Peace Triumphant over War^[2]
- Poem on the Industry of the United States of America^[2]

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

April 3 – Washington Irving (died 1859), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
April 21 – Reginald Heber (died 1826), English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
September 8 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (died 1872), Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politician^[3]
September 23 – Jane Taylor (died 1824), English poet and novelist
December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez (died c.1873), Puerto Rican poet and playwright

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

January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
January 10 – Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English clergyman, playwright, poet and author
July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German
July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井時般), and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright
November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
December 12 – John Scott, 53 (born 1731), English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
Approximate date – John Seccomb (born 1708), American clergyman and poet^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ 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

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