1798 in poetry


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Contents

Events

Works published

United Kingdom

Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began The Prelude.[1]

United States

  • Richard Alsop, with Lemuel Hopkins and Theodore Dwight, The Political Greenhouse[3]
  • Joseph Hopkinson, "Hail Columbia", a popular patriotic song, written during the war fever against France[4]
  • William Munford, Poems and Prose on Several Occasions, including a tragedy, translations from Horace, versifications of Ossian[4]
  • Judith Sargent Murray, The Gleaner[3]
  • Robert Treat Paine, Jr., "Adams and Liberty", the author's most famous work, sung throughout the country; praising America's independence from European tyranny[4]
  • Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, Versification of President Washington's Excellent Farewell-Adress[3]

Births

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

Deaths

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The Cornell Wordsworth Collection". Cornell University. Retrieved on February 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. ^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ a b c 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
  5. ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009








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