Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
July 31 –
Scottish poet
Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by John Wilson in
Kilmarnock (the text having been submitted to him on July 13). The volume proves so popular that Burns abandons his plans to emigrate to
Jamaica on September 1 for a post as a bookkeeper on a slave plantation and on November 27–28 journeys on a borrowed pony from Mossgiel Farm for his first visit to
Edinburgh. Two weeks later he extemporises his "
Address to a Haggis" which is first published on December 20 in the Caledonian Mercury.[1]
John Parke, The Lyric Works of
Horace [...] to Which Are Added a Number of Original Poems [...], poetry, drama and prose; including "Ovid's Elegies and Anacreon's Odes", translations by
David French (poet),
United States[4]
Other
Solomon Gessner, works, translated into
French from the original
German of the
Swiss poet; in three volumes, published starting this year, with the last volume published in
1793
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: