1794 in poetry
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Events
- Robert Treat Paine founds the Federal Orrery, a semiweekly Federalist journal in Boston, Massachusetts. It features contributions from Joseph Dennie and Sarah Wentworth Morton, and includes poetry, satire and criticism.[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- William Blake:
- Europe, A Prophecy, illuminated book with 17 relief-etched plates; 12 copies known[2]
- The First Book of Urizen, illuminated book[2]
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the two contrary states of the human soul[2]
- Erasmus Darwin, The Golden Age[2]
- Thomas Gisborne, Walks in a Forrest[2]
- Richard Payne Knight, The Landscape[2]
- Joseph Ritson, Scottish Song, anthology[2]
United States
- William Bradford, A Descriptive and Historical Account of new England in Verse, posthumous, written 1650[3]
- Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill: A Poem in Seven Parts, an imitation of John Denham's Cooper's Hill; contrasts wholesome American village life to depraved Europe, and mentions historical events; written after Dwight became a minister in Greenfield, Connecticut; United States[1]
- Philip Freneau, The Village Merchant[3]
- Francis Hopkinson, Ode from Ossian's Poems[3]
Other
- Thomas Russell, "The Negro's Complaint", anti-slavery poem, published November 5; Ireland[4]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Maria Gowen Brooks, (died 1845, year of death uncertain), American poet[5]
- William Cullen Bryant (died 1878), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post
- Carlos Wilcox (died 1827), American poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Justus Möser (born 1720), German jurist, social theorist
- Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (born 1748)
- Susanna Blamire
- Alison Cockburn (born 1713), Scots poet (née Rutherford)
- André de Chénier (born 1762), French poet
See also
Notes
- ^ 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 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Web page titled "1798 / Ireland / Chronology" at Irish Online website, retrieved June 30, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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