1778 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1778 in poetry

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Events

John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen Sonnets^[1]
William Combe, The Auction^[1]
George Ellis, writing under the pen name "Sir Gregory Gander", Poetical Tales^[1]
William Hayley, A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter, published anonymously; addressed to George Romney^[1]
Vicesimus Knox, Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists, a critical essay^[2]
John Scott, Moral Eclogues, published anonymously^[1]
Percival Stockdale, Inquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular Defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope^[2]
John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers^[1]

Joel Barlow, The Prospect of Peace^[3]
William Billings, Chester^[3]
Francis Hopkinson:
- "The Battle of the Kegs", United States^[4]
- "Date Obolum Bellisario"^[3]
- "The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat"^[3]

Ippolit Bogdanovich, Dushenka, a long poem and his best-known work, Russia
Johannes Ewald, Kong Christian stod ved höjen Mast ("King Christian Stood by the Lofty mast"), a popular song in his melodrama The Fishermen, which later became the Danish national anthem (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later translated it into English)^[5]
Johann Gottfried Herder - Volkslieder nebst untermischten anderen Stücken
Évariste de Parny - Les Poésies érotiques

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

February 6 – Ugo Foscolo (died 1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
April 10 – William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer, essayist and critic
August 22 – James Kirke Paulding (died 1860), American novelist, poet and United States Secretary of the Navy;^[6] a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed
September 9 – Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
December 22 – Anna Maria Porter (died 1832), English poet and novelist
Robert Davidson (died 1855), Scottish peasant poet

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

May 30 – Voltaire (born 1694), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
August 11 – Augustus Toplady (born 1740), English Anglican clergyman, poet and hymn-writer
Rob Donn (born 1714), Scottish Gaelic poet

^ ^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 Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 50, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
^ Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 178, Dial Press, 1938, New York
^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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