List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1772
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1774
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

October 26 - Phillis Wheatley sends a poem and letter to General George Washington in his honor. He responded to her in 1776.[1]

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[2]
  • Philip Freneau:
    • "General Gage's Soliloquy"[3]
    • "General Gage's Confession"[3]
    • "A Voyage to Boston"[4]
    • "American Liberty"[4]
    • "A Political Litany"[4]
  • John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)[3]

United Kingdom

Births

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

Deaths

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

See also

Notes

  1. Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, pp 36-37
  2. 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
  3. 1 2 3 Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  4. 1 2 3 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 16021983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  6. 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. 2009-07-29.
  7. "Bulmer, Agnes" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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