1790 in poetry
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1790 in poetry
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Events
- Henry James Pye became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- March - Jens Baggesen, after ridiculing his fellow Danes in his poem, Holger the Dane and leaving Denmark for Germany, Baggensen went on to Switzerland, became a good friend of the Swiss poet Johan Kaspar Lavater, a leader in the Sturm und Drang movement, and this month returned to Denmark.[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- Joanna Baillie, published anonymously, Poems[2]
- William Blake, published anonymously, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, illuminated book with 27 relief-etched plates
- Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" Scottish
- Anne Francis, anonymously published "by a lady", then reissued this year under the author's name, Miscellaneous Poems[2]
- Robert Merry, The Laurel of Liberty[2]
- William Sotheby, Poems[2]
- Ann Yearsley, Stanzas of Woe[2]
United States
- Peter Markoe, the Reconciliation; or, The Triumph of Nature, an unproduced opera in verse[3]
- Sarah Wentworth Morton, published under the name "Philenia, a Lady of Boston", Ouabi; or, The Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos,[4] narrative poem portraying a love triangle between an Indian chief, his wife and an aristocrat from Europe; set to music in 1793 by Hans Graham; the poem inspired Louis James Bacon to write the play The American Indian in 1795[5]
- Mercy Otis Warren, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous,[4] the first work printed under the author's own name; includes verse tragedies; many of the poems promote republican virtues and show women as moral authorities[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – James Wills (died 1868), Irish writer and poet
- January 10 – Anders Abraham Grafström (died 1870), Swedish historian, priest and poet
- October 21 – Alphonse de Lamartine (died 1869), French writer, poet and politician
- July 8 – Fitz-Greene Halleck (died 1867), American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 21 – Thomas Warton (born 1728), English
- July 25 – William Livingston (born 1723), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer
- date not known –Andrew Macdonald (poet) (born 1755), Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright
See also
Notes
- ^ Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 179, Dial Press, 1938, New York
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b 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
- ^ 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
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