Overview of the events of 1783 in poetry
American poet Ann Eliza Bleecker died this year (engraving from frontispiece of Posthumous Works , 1793 ) Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France ).
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(July 2010 )
Works published
Lady Anne Barnard , Auld Robin Gray William Blake , Poetical Sketches [ 1] Jane Cave (later, Jane Wiscom), Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious [ 1] Judith Cowper (later, Judith Madan), The Progress of Poetry [ 1] George Crabbe , The Village [ 1] John Hoole translator, Orlando Furioso Joseph Ritson , editor, A Select Collection of English Songs , anthology[ 1] John Wolcot , writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (Lyric Odes 1782 )[ 1]
Other
Births
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April 3 – Washington Irving (died 1859 ), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
April 21 – Reginald Heber (died 1826 ), English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
September 8 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (died 1872 ), Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politician[ 3]
September 23 – Jane Taylor (died 1824 ), English poet and novelist
December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez (died c.1873 ), Puerto Rican poet and playwright
Deaths
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January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698 ), German -language Swiss , author, critic, academic and poet
January 10 – Phanuel Bacon (born 1700 ) English clergyman, playwright, poet and author
July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719 ), German
July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般 , and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702 ), Japanese samurai , scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703 ) Irish poet and playwright
November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752 ), American poet and correspondent
December 12 – John Scott , 53 (born 1731 ), English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
Approximate date – John Seccomb (born 1708 ), American clergyman and poet[ 4]
See also
Notes
^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7 , retrieved via Google Books
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