1798 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began
The Prelude.
[1]
- Robert Anderson, Poems on Various Subjects[2]
- William Lisle Bowles, St. Michael's Mount[2]
- George Canning and J. H. Frere, The Loves of the Triangles, a parody of Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
- Joseph Cottle, Malvern Hills[2]
- Thomas Gisborne, Poems, Sacred and Moral[2]
- Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, Blank Verse, including Lamb's "The Old Familiar Faces"[2]
- Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems[2]
- William Sotheby, translation from the German Oberon of Christoph Martin Wieland, Oberon[2]
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published anonymously, Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other Poems, including "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (see also Lyrical Ballads 1801, 1802, 1805 and 1815)[2]
- 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:
- January 5 – David Macbeth Moir, Scottish
- March 30 – Luise Hensel, German
- April 8 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (died 1857), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which became the Greek national anthem
- June 29 – Count Giacomo Leopardi, Italian
- September 20 – Samuel Henry Dickson (died 1872), American poet, physician, writer and educator
- December 24 - Adam Mickiewicz (died 1855), Polish Romantic poet
- date not known – Macdonald Clarke, American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes
- ^ "The Cornell Wordsworth Collection". Cornell University. Retrieved on February 13, 2009.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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