1767 in poetry

Events

• About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement begins in German literature (including poetry) and music; it will last through the early 1780s. (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").

Works published

• Michael Bruce, Elegy Written in Spring
• Francis Fawkes, Partridge-Shooting: An eclogue
• Oliver Goldsmith, editor, The Beauties of English Poesy, an anthology
• Francis Hopkinson, the Psalms of David [...] in Metre, English, Colonial America
• Richard Jago, Edge-Hill; or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised
• Henry Jones, Kew Gardens
• Moses Mendes, editor, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, an anthology
• William Mickle, The Concubine (reissued as Sir Martin 1778)
• John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Use of Families
• Phillis Wheatley, a poem published in the Newport Mercury in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761; Colonial America

Works wrongly said to be published this year

• Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology; although the book states it was published this year, it first appeared in 1766

Births

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

• March 1 – Alexander Balfour (died 1829), Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet
• September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel (died 1845), German poet, translator, critic, and a leader of German Romanticism

Deaths

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

• May 17 – Roger Wolcott (born 1679), English Colonial American, governor of Connecticut and poet
• June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann (died 1681), German composer and poet
• July 15 – Michael Bruce (born 1746), Scottish poet
• December 21 – Leonard Howard (born 1699?), English clergyman, "poet laureate of the King's Bench Prison"

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. {{ISBN. 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20
4. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
5. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati28stepuoft "Leonard Howard" article in DNB]