1774 in poetry
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Events
- During this year's harvest, 15-year-old Scottish farm labourer Robert Burns is assisted by his contemporary Nelly Kilpatrick who inspires his first attempt at poetry, "O, Once I Lov'd A Bonnie Lass".
- Jacques Delille elected to membership in the Académie Française in large part due to his verse translation of the Georgics in 1769[1]
Works published
Colonial America
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, "A Poem on Divine Revelation"[2]
- Samuel Occom, editor, A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs[2]
- John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Times"[2]
United Kingdom
- James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book 2 (Book 1 1771, both books published together with other verse in 1775)[3]
- William Dunkin, The Poetical Works of the Late William Dunkin, posthumously published; Volume 1 includes Latin and Ancient Greek poetry with English translations[3]
- Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation; a poem, published April 19[3]
- Richard Graves, The Progress of Gallantry, published anonymously[3]
- Thomas Gray, The Poems of Mr Gray (posthumous)
- William Mason, An Heroic Postscript to the Public, published anonymously[3]
- Hannah More, The Inflexible Captive: A tragedy[3]
- Samuel Jackson Pratt (as "Courtney Melmoth"), The Tears of A Genius, occasioned by the Death of Dr Goldsmith
- Henry James Pye, Farringdon Hill[3]
- Mary Scott, The Female Advocate, a response to The Feminead 1754 by John Duncombe[3]
- Thomas Warton the Younger, History of English Poetry, in three volumes, published from 1774-1781[3]
- William Whitehead, Plays and Poems by William Whitehead, Esq. Poet Laureat (see also Poems 1788)[3]
Other
- Charles Batteux, Principes de la littérature, including Cours de belles lettres of 1765; criticism; France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 3 â Robert Tannahill (died 1810), Scottish "Weaver Poet"
- August 12 â Robert Southey (died 1843), English poet
- November 4 â Robert Allan (died 1841), Scottish "Weaver Poet"
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Early â Lady Dorothea Du Bois (born 1728), Irish poet and writer
- c. January 29âFebruary 5 â James Love, pseudonym of James Dance (born 1721), English poet, playwright and actor
- May 11 â Charles Jenner (born 1736), English poet, novelist and Anglican cleric
- August 14 â Johann Jakob Reiske (born 1716), German scholar and physician
- October 16 â Oliver Goldsmith (born 1728), English writer and poet[4]
- October 17 â Robert Fergusson (born 1750), Scottish poet
- November 25 â Henry Baker (born 1698), English naturalist, poet, sign-language developer
- December 20 â Paul Whitehead (born 1710), English satiric poet
- Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (born 1713), Indian, Sindhi-language poet[5]
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