1783 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray (ballad) (published anonymously)
• William Blake, Poetical Sketches
• Jane Cave (later, Jane Wiscom), Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious
• Judith Cowper (later, Judith Madan), The Progress of Poetry
• George Crabbe, The Village
• John Hoole translator, Orlando Furioso
• Joseph Ritson, editor, A Select Collection of English Songs, anthology
• John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (Lyric Odes 1782)

Other

• David Humphreys, United States:
  • The Glory of America; or Peace Triumphant over War
  • Poem on the Industry of the United States of America

Births

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

• April 3 – Washington Irving (died 1859), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
• April 21 – Reginald Heber (died 1826), English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
• September 8 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (died 1872), Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politician
• September 23 – Jane Taylor (died 1824), English poet and novelist
• December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez (died c.1873), Puerto Rican poet and playwright

Deaths

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

• January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
• January 10 – Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English clergyman, playwright, poet and author
• July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German
• July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura, and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
• October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright
• November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
• December 12 – John Scott, 53 (born 1731), English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
• Approximate date – John Seccomb (born 1708), American clergyman and poet

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. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
4. 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books