1784 in poetry

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Events

• About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature (including poetry) and music, which began in the late 1760s. Tthe conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse".

Works published

• Évariste de Parny, Élégies, France

Births

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

• July 27 - Denis Davydov (died 1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
• October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
• November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.

Deaths

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

• December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet, died in poverty in 1784 while working on a second book of poetry, which has now been lost^[1] (born 1753)
• December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842), Scottish poet and author
• Henry Alline
• Bernard Barton
• Le Quy Don, Vietnamese (born 1726), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
• Samuel Johnson (born 1709), English poet, author, critic
• Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (born 1709), French poet
• Alexander Ross
• George Alexander Stevens

See also

Poetry portal

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• French literature of the 18th century
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

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