1782 in poetry

Events

• August 18 - English poet and artist William Blake marries Catherine Boucher at St Mary's Church, Battersea. In the same year, he meets his future patron, John Flaxman.

Works published

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• William Cowper
  • The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published anonymously in the Public Advertiser on November 14 (published with The Task 1785)
  • Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
  • Poems (see also Poems 1815)
• John Freeth, Modern Songs, on Various Subjects
• William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason
• William Mason:
  • An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles ... Editor of a Superb Edition of the Poems of Thomas Rowley, attributed to Mason; written in the Rowleian dialect (see Thomas Chatterton's Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written ... by Thomas Rowley 1777)
  • King Stephen's Watch
• Hannah More, Sacred Dramas, Chiefly intended for Young Persons, published anonymously, went through 24 editions by 1829
• Edward Rushton, The Dismember'd Empire, published anonymously; attribution uncertain
• John Scott, The Poetical Works of John Scott
• John Walters, Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry
• Joseph Warton, Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 (Volume 1 published in 1756), criticism
• Helen Maria Williams, Edwin and Eltruda
• John Wolcot writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (see also More Lyric Odes 1783)

Other

• Jacques Delille, Les Jardins ("The Gardens"), France
• John Trumbull, M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos, a satirical poem about American Tories during the American Revolution, is published in completed form (first two cantos published in 1778), United States
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Fischerin (Singspiel, including "Der Erlkönig"), Germany

Births

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

• January 30 - Ann Taylor (died 1866), English poet and literary critic
• September 19 - Richard Lower (died 1865), English dialect poet
• Irayimman Thampi (died 1856), Indian Carnatic music composer and poet

Deaths

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

• April 12 - Metastasio (born 1698), Italian poet and librettist
• August 27 - Henriette Louise von Hayn (born 1724), German hymn writer

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. France, Peter, ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French'', p 226, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) {{ISBN. 0-19-866125-8
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Carruth, Gorton, ''The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates'', ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993