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1781 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, IrishorFrance).

Events[edit]

• George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke asking for financial assistance. The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.^[1]

Works published[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Santa Rita Durão, Caramuru, Portuguese poem written in Brazil

Births[edit]

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

• January 26 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (died 1831), German poet and novelist
• March 17 – Ebenezer Elliott (died 1849), English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer
• September 12 – John Grieve (died 1836), Scottish poet
• November 6 – Lucy Aikin (died 1864), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator
• November 29 – Andrés Bello (died 1865), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
• December 25? – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet

Deaths[edit]

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

• January 6 – Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet, shot
• February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729), German poet
• March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet^[4]
• May 8 – Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet
• June 25 – Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 1711), German poet
• November 4 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (born 1721), German poet
• Azar Bigdeli (died 1722), Persian anthologist and poet

See also[edit]

• 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

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