Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Joanna Baillie, published anonymously, Poems[1]
- William Blake, published anonymously, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, illuminated book with 27 relief-etched plates
- Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" Scottish
- Anne Francis, anonymously published "by a lady", then reissued this year under the author's name, Miscellaneous Poems[1]
- Robert Merry, The Laurel of Liberty[1]
- William Sotheby, Poems[1]
- Ann Yearsley, Stanzas of Woe[1]
- Peter Markoe, the Reconciliation; or, The Triumph of Nature, an unproduced opera in verse[2]
- Sarah Wentworth Morton, published under the name "Philenia, a Lady of Boston", Ouabi; or, The Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos,[3] narrative poem portraying a love triangle between an Indian chief, his wife and an aristocrat from Europe; set to music in 1793 by Hans Graham; the poem inspired Louis James Bacon to write the play The American Indian in 1795[4]
- Mercy Otis Warren, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous,[3] the first work printed under the author's own name; includes verse tragedies; many of the poems promote republican virtues and show women as moral authorities[4]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
- ^ a b Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
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