1778 in poetry
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Events
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
- Ãvariste de Parny - Les Poésies érotiques
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 6 â Ugo Foscolo (died 1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
- April 10 â William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer, essayist and critic
- August 22 â 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 â Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
- December 22 â Anna Maria Porter (died 1832), English poet and novelist
- Robert Davidson (died 1855), Scottish peasant poet
Deaths
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