1781 in poetry
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Events
- George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke asking for financial assistance. The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- William Cowper, Anti-Thelyphthora, published anonymously (see also Martin Madan's Thelyphthora 1780)[2]
- George Crabbe, The Library, published anonymously[2]
- Anne Francis, A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon[2]
- William Hayley, The Triumphs of Temper[2]
- George Keate, Poetical Works[2]
- Samuel Jackson Pratt, Sympathy; or, A Sketch of the Social Passion, published anonymously[2]
- Anna Seward, Monody on Major André, on John André, hanged as a spy in the American Revolution
United States
- Philip Freneau, The British Prison-Ship: A Poem[3]
- William Hayley, "The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem"[3]
- Francis Hopkinson, The Temple of Minerva[3]
- Anna Seward, Monody on Major Andre[3]
Other
- Santa Rita Durão, Caramuru, Portuguese poem written in Brazil
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 26 â Ludwig Achim von Arnim (died 1831), German poet and novelist
- March 17 â Ebenezer Elliott (died 1849), English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer
- September 12 â John Grieve (died 1836), Scottish poet
- November 6 â Lucy Aikin (died 1864), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator
- November 29 â Andrés Bello (died 1865), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
- December 25? â Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 â Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet, shot
- February 15 â Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729), German poet
- March 17 â Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet[4]
- May 8 â Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet
- June 25 â Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 1711), German poet
- November 4 â Johann Nikolaus Götz (born 1721), German poet
- Azar Bigdeli (died 1722), Persian anthologist and poet
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