1775 in poetry

Events

26 October - Phillis Wheatley sends a poem and letter to General George Washington in his honor. He responded to her in 1776.

Works published

[[American poetry|Colonial America]]

• Anna Young Smith, published under the pen name "Sylvia", "An Elegy to the Memory of the America Volunteers", published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Colonial AmericaDavis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 , retrieved via Google Books on 7 February 2009
• Philip Freneau:
  • "General Gage's Soliloquy"
  • "General Gage's Confession"
  • "A Voyage to Boston"
  • "American Liberty"
  • "A Political Litany"
• John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
• George Crabbe, Inebriety, published anonymously
• Hugh Downman, The Drama
• Thomas Gray, The Poems of Mr. Gray, to which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, M.A., Annotated letters of Thomas Gray, comments by Mason on the poems; York: A. Ward; criticism and biography
• Edward Jerningham, The Fall of Mexico
• Mary Robinson, Poems by Mrs. Robinson
• Richard Savage, The Works of Richard Savage, edited by Samuel Johnson, with a life of Savage by Johnson, later reprinted in Johnson's Prefaces [...] to the Works of the English Poets 1779 (see also An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage 1744)

Births

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

• 30 January – Walter Savage Landor (died 1864), English writer and poet
• 10 February – Charles Lamb (died 1834), English writer and poet
• 12 February – Charles Lloyd (died 1839), English poet, friend of Lamb
• 24 March – Muthuswami Dikshitar (died 1835), South Indian poet and composer
• 15 June – Carlo Porta (died 1821), Italian poet
• 9 July – Matthew Lewis ("Monk Lewis") (died 1818), English Gothic novelist and dramatist
• 11 July – Joseph Blanco White, born José María Blanco Crespo (died 1841), Spanish-born theologian and poet writing in English
• 31 August – Agnes Bulmer (died 1836), English poet
• 8 September – John Leyden (died 1811), Scottish orientalist
• 16 December – Jane Austen (died 1817), English novelist and poet

Deaths

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

• 21 March – Samuel Boyce, English engraver, dramatist and poet
• 2 October – Fukuda Chiyo-ni, or Kaga no Chiyo, 千代尼 (born 1703), Japanese woman poet of the Edo period, prominent writer of haiku
• Approximate date – Ramprasad Sen (born 1718/23), Bengali Shakta poet

Notes

References

1. 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, pp 36-37
2. Carruth, Gorton, ''The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates'', ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
5. Web page titled [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/C18/biblio/gray.html "Selected Bibliography: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)"]"By Alan T. McKenzie, Purdue University, and B. Eugene McCarthy, College of the Holy Cross / Last revised 14 December 2001", retrieved 25 July 2009. 2009-07-29.
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