1787 in poetry

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Contents

Events

Works published

United Kingdom

Ann Yearsley, in an engraving published this year
  • Robert Burns:
    • Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (see also the editions of 1786, 1793)[1]
    • see also Richard Glover's The Scots Musical Museum, below
  • Anne Francis, Charlotte to Werter[1]
  • Richard Glover, The Atheniad[1]
  • James Johnson, editor, The Scots Musical Museum, an anthology with 177 of the 600 songs written by Robert Burns, who had collected many of the others; published in six volumes from this year to 1803; Volumes 2–5 edited by Burns[1]
  • George Keate, The Distressed Poet[1]
  • Sophia Lee, A Hermit's Tale, published anonymously[1]
  • Robert Merry, Paulina; or, The Russian Daughter[1]
  • John Ogilvie, The Fame of the Druids, published anonymously[1]
  • Edward Rushton, West-Indian Eclogues, published anonymously[1]
  • John Thelwall, Poems on Various Subjects[1]
  • John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Ode Upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James[1]
  • Ann Yearsley, Poems, on Various Subjects[1]

United States

  • Joel Barlow, The Vision of Columbus, nine books; describes America as prosperous and improving, seeks to promote "the love of national liberty" in Americans (revised as The Columbiad 1807)[2]
  • James Beattie, Poems on Several Occasions[3]
  • Peter Markoe, Miscellaneous Poems[2]

Other

Births

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Deaths

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. ^ a b Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
  3. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 501, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
  5. ^ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 599, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8



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