1774 in poetry

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Events

• During this year's harvest, 15-year-old Scottish farm labourer Robert Burns is assisted by his contemporary Nelly Kilpatrick who inspires his first attempt at poetry, "O, Once I Lov'd A Bonnie Lass".
• Jacques Delille elected to membership in the Académie Française in large part due to his verse translation of the Georgics in 1769[1]

Works published

Colonial America

• Hugh Henry Brackenridge, "A Poem on Divine Revelation"[2]
• Samuel Occom, editor, A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs[2]
• John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Times"[2]

United Kingdom

• James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book 2 (Book 1 1771, both books published together with other verse in 1775)[3]
• William Dunkin, The Poetical Works of the Late William Dunkin, posthumously published; Volume 1 includes Latin and Ancient Greek poetry with English translations[3]
• Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation; a poem, published April 19[3]
• Richard Graves, The Progress of Gallantry, published anonymously[3]
• Thomas Gray, The Poems of Mr Gray (posthumous)
• William Mason, An Heroic Postscript to the Public, published anonymously[3]
• Hannah More, The Inflexible Captive: A tragedy[3]
• Samuel Jackson Pratt (as "Courtney Melmoth"), The Tears of A Genius, occasioned by the Death of Dr Goldsmith
• Henry James Pye, Farringdon Hill[3]
• Mary Scott, The Female Advocate, a response to The Feminead 1754 by John Duncombe[3]
• Thomas Warton the Younger, History of English Poetry, in three volumes, published from 1774-1781[3]
• William Whitehead, Plays and Poems by William Whitehead, Esq. Poet Laureat (see also Poems 1788)[3]

Other

• Charles Batteux, Principes de la littérature, including Cours de belles lettres of 1765; criticism; France

Births

Oliver Goldsmith

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

• June 3 – Robert Tannahill (died 1810), Scottish "Weaver Poet"
• August 12 – Robert Southey (died 1843), English poet
• November 4 – Robert Allan (died 1841), Scottish "Weaver Poet"

Deaths

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

• Early – Lady Dorothea Du Bois (born 1728), Irish poet and writer
• c. January 29–February 5 – James Love, pseudonym of James Dance (born 1721), English poet, playwright and actor
• May 11 – Charles Jenner (born 1736), English poet and writer
• August 14 – Johann Jakob Reiske (born 1716), German scholar and physician
• October 16 – Oliver Goldsmith (born 1728), English writer and poet[4]
• October 17 – Robert Fergusson (born 1750), Scottish poet
• November 25 – Henry Baker (born 1698), English naturalist, poet, sign-language developer
• December 20 – Paul Whitehead (born 1710), English satiric poet
• Khwaja Muhammad Zaman (born 1713), Indian, Sindhi-language poet[5]

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• French literature of the 18th century
• Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

Notes

1. France, Peter (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
2. Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature 1602-1983. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
4. Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.
5. Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events 1911-1956" in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, Sahitya Akademi (1995). ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9. Retrieved via Google Books 2008-12-23.