1775 in poetry

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Contents

Events

Works published

Colonial America

  • Anna Young Smith, published under the pen name "Sylvia", "An Elegy to the Memory of the America Volunteers", published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Colonial America[1]
  • Philip Freneau:
    • "General Gage's Soliloquy"[2]
    • "General Gage's Confession"[2]
    • "A Voyage to Boston"[3]
    • "American Liberty"[3]
    • "A Political Litany"[3]
  • John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)[2]

United Kingdom

  • Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse[4]
  • George Crabbe, Inebriety, published anonymously[4]
  • Hugh Downman, The Drama[4]
  • Thomas Gray, The Poems of Mr. Gray, to which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, M.A., Annotated letters of Thomas Gray, comments by Mason on the poems; York: A. Ward; criticism and biography[5]
  • Edward Jerningham, The Fall of Mexico[4]
  • Mary Robinson, Poems[4]
  • Richard Savage, The Works of Richard Savage, edited by Samuel Johnson, with a life of Savage by Johnson, later reprinted in Johnson's Prefaces [...] to the Works of the English Poets 1779 (see also An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage 1744)[4]

Births

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

Deaths

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
  2. ^ a b c Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  3. ^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Web page titled "Selected Bibliography: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)" "By Alan T. McKenzie, Purdue University, and B. Eugene McCarthy, College of the Holy Cross / Last revised 14 December 2001", retrieved July 25, 2009. Archived 2009-07-29.



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