1777 in poetry

Events

• March 1 (Saint David's Day) – Welsh ship's surgeon David Samwell, on board HMS Resolution in the Pacific Ocean on the second voyage of James Cook, writes a penillion.

Works published

[[English poetry|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)
• William Combe:
  • The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham
  • The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly
• Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously
• William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison
• William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously
• Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition
• Paul Whitehead, Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions

[[American poetry|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
• Anonymous ("H. I."), *Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all * (sic), "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pages
• Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at Sinai
• Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad"

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

Births

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

• January 27 – Lukijan Mušicki (died 1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
• March 14 – John Blair Linn (died 1804), American
• July 27 – Thomas Campbell (died 1844), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
• December 2 – Hendrik Doeff (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese

Deaths

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

• January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator, editor and composer
• February 3 – Hugh Kelly (born 1739), Irish poet and dramatist
• March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
• August 26 – Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
• September 24 (bur.) – James Fortescue (born 1716), English
• October 12 (October 1 O.S.) – Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and dramatist
• December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
• Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
• Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Evans, Charles, [https://archive.org/stream/americanbibliogr05evanrich#page/348/mode/2up ''American Bibliography''], Volume 5, p 349, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
3. Evans, Charles, [https://archive.org/stream/americanbibliogr05evanrich#page/318/mode/2up ''American Bibliography''], Volume 5, p 319, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
4. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 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 [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography"] at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009