1777 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1774
1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780

Events

Works published

United Kingdom

  • Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published February 8 (see also Tyrwhitt, A Vindication 1782)[1]
  • William Combe:
    • The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham[1]
    • The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly[1]
  • Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously[1]
  • William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison[1]
  • William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously[1]
  • Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition[1]
  • Paul Whitehead, Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions[1]

United States

  • Anonymous, Song: made on the taking of General Burgoyne, a broadside of 21 four-line verses, published with no information on the place or printer[2]
  • Anonymous ("H. I."), Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all rebellion's (sic), "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pages[3]
  • Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at Sinai[4]
  • Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad"[4]

Other

  • Solomon Gessner, works, German-language, Switzerland; in two volumes, published this year and in 1777
  • Pierre Le Tourneur, Poésies galliques, translation into French from the original English of James Macpherson's Ossian poems[5]

Births

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Deaths

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See also

Notes

  1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 349, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
  3. Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 319, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
  4. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 16021983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  5. France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 456, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
  6. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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