1781 in poetry

Overview of the events of 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]

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

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

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

^ Ainger, Alfred (1903). Crabbe. New York: Macmillan. pp. 31–32.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.

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