1788 in poetry
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Events
- December â Robert Burns writes his version of the Scots poem Auld Lang Syne.[1]
Works published in English
United Kingdom
This year three works of poetry, all written by women (the Falconars, More and Yearsley), condemn slavery; while Samuel Pratt is an early advocate of animal rights:
- Henry Cary, Sonnets and Odes,[2] the author turns 16 years old this year
- William Collins, Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland[2]
- William Crowe, Lewesdon Hill, published anonymously[2]
- Maria Falconar and Harriet Falconar:
- James Hurdis, The Village Curate[2]
- Robert Merry, writing under the pen name "Della Crusca", Diversity[2]
- Hannah More, Slavery: A Poem
- "Peter Pindar", see John Wolcot, below
- Samuel Jackson Pratt, Sympathy
- William Whitehead, Poems by William Whitehead, published posthumously, edited by William Mason (see also Plays and Poems 1774)[2]
- John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Tales and Fables[2]
- Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade[2]
United States
- Timothy Dwight, published anonymously, "The Triumph of Infidelity: A Poem",[3] satire in heroic couplets; supports Calvinism and attacks Voltaire, David Hume, Joseph Priestley and their followers[4]
- Philip Freneau, Miscellaneous Works of Mr. Philip Freneau, Containing His Essays and Additional Poems[4]
- Francis Hopkinson:
- Peter Markoe:
- William Roscoe, The Wrongs of Africa: A Poem[3]
- Susanna Rowson:
Works published in other languages
- Basilio da Gama, Relação abreviada da República e Lenitivo da saudade; Brazil[6]
- Joseph Quesnel, Colas et Colinette, a comedy in verse, French language, published in Quebec, Canada[7]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 22 â Lord Byron (died 1824), English poet and leading figure in Romanticism
- March 10 â Joseph von Eichendorff (died 1857), German poet and novelist
- May 16 â Friedrich Rückert (died 1866), German poet, translator and professor of Oriental languages
- June (day unknown) â Eliza Townsend (died 1854), American poet who published anonymously
- c. October 14 â Robert Millhouse (died 1839), English weaver poet
- October 24 â Sarah Josepha Hale (died 1879), American writer, influential editor, author of nursery rhymes, including "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
- December 6 â Richard H. Barham ("Thomas Ingoldsby") (died 1845), English poet, humorist and priest
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 29 â Charles Wesley (born 1707), English Methodist clergyman and hymn writer
- June 12 â Johann Andreas Cramer (born 1723), German poet, writer and theologian
- July 5 â Mather Byles, (born 1707), English Colonial American clergyman and poet[4]
- July 31 â Thomas Russell (born 1762), English poet whose Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems are posthumously published in 1789
- October 13 â Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent (born 1709), Irish poet and politician
- October 28 â William Julius Mickle (born 1734), Scottish-born poet
- Giulio Variboba (born 1725), Arbëresh poet
