1797 in poetry
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Events
- William Blake illustrates Edward Young's Night Thoughts
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge composes "Kubla Khan" in an opium-induced dream and writes down only a fragment of it on waking.
Works published
United Kingdom
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems ... Second Edition[1]
- George Dyer, The Poet's Fate[1]
- Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Joseph Warton, posthumous[1]
- Charlotte Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, sequel to Elegaic Sonnets 1784[1]
- Mary Wollstonecraft, "On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature", Monthly Magazine (April 1797), criticism
United States
- Sarah Wentworth Morton, publishing under the name "Philenia", Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive, on the American Revolution; conventional verse in neoclassical form[2]
- Robert Treat Paine Jr. "The Ruling Passion", the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem for this year[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (died 1848), German
- March 27 – Alfred de Vigny (died 1863), French poet, playwright, and novelist
- August 30 – Mary Shelley (died 1851), British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, and poet
- October 13 – William Motherwell (died 1835), Scottish
- December 13 – Heinrich Heine (died 1856), German
- December 27 – Mirza Ghalib (died 1869), classical Urdu and Persian poet from India
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Joseph Friedrich Engelschall (born 1739), German
- John Codrington Bampfylde
- George Keate
- William Mason (born 1724), English poet, editor and gardener
- Molla Panah Vagif (born 1717), Azerbaijani poet
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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 Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. [http://www.webcitation.org/5hj0MKjXH Archived 2009-06-22.
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