1799 in poetry


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Contents

Events

  • July 21 – At about this year, on the anniversary of the 1796 death of Scots poet Robert Burns, his friends started the tradition of the Burns supper, which has since spread so widely as to become almost a national Scottish holiday. Originally held on the anniversary of Burns' death, at some point the tradition switched to holding the dinners on his birthday, January 25.
  • British Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson's defeat of the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile on August 1, 1798 was the subject of separate poems this year by English poets William Lisle Bowles and William Sotheby.[1]
  • The Monthly Magazine and American Review starts publication in the United States; edited by Charles Brockden Brown, featuring articles on current events and science, poems, short stories, essays and book reviews; converted into American Review and Literary Journal in 1801, when it becomes a quarterly[2]

Works published

United Kingdom

United States

  • Richard Alsop, Lemuel Hopkins and Theodore Dwight, The Political Greenhouse, popular satirical verse with a Federalist attack on Thomas Jefferson, Democratic Republicans, France and Jacobins; first appeared in the Connecticut Courant; quoted in Congress[2]
  • Sarah Wentworth Murray, The Virtues of Society, narrative poem about a wounded British officer and his wife; adapted from part of Beacon Hill 1797

[2]

  • Lindley Murray, editor, The English Reader; or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers, fiction, nonfiction and poetry[3]

Births

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

Deaths

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ a b Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
  5. ^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 8, 2009






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