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Overview of the events of 1787 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1787 in poetry
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Irish or
France ).
Events
Works published
Ann Yearsley , in an engraving published this year
Robert Burns :
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (see also the editions of
1786 ,
1793 )
[2]
see also Richard Glover's The Scots Musical Museum , below
Anne Francis , Charlotte to Werter
[2]
Richard Glover , The Atheniad
[2]
James Johnson , editor, The Scots Musical Museum , an anthology with 177 of the 600 songs written by
Robert Burns , who had collected many of the others; published in six volumes from this year to
1803 ; Volumes 2–5 edited by Burns
[2]
George Keate , The Distressed Poet
[2]
Sophia Lee , A Hermit's Tale , published anonymously
[2]
Robert Merry , Paulina; or, The Russian Daughter
[2]
John Ogilvie , The Fame of the Druids , published anonymously
[2]
Henry James Pye , Poems on Various Subjects , including "Aerophorion", possibly the first poem about an aviator (
James Sadler (balloonist) )
Edward Rushton , West-Indian Eclogues , published anonymously
[2]
John Thelwall , Poems on Various Subjects
[2]
John Wolcot , writing under the
pen name "Peter Pindar", Ode Upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James
[2]
Ann Yearsley , Poems, on Various Subjects
[2]
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 14 –
Alexander Laing (died
1857 ),
Scottish poet
November 15 –
Richard Henry Dana Sr. (died
1879 ),
American poet, critic and lawyer
November 21 –
Bryan Procter ("Barry Cornwall") (died
1874 ),
English poet
December 16 –
Mary Russell Mitford (died
1855 ),
English novelist, poet and dramatist
Margaret Miller Davidson, Sr. (died
1844 ),
American novelist, mother of poets
Lucretia Maria Davidson ,
Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson
Susanna Hawkins (died
1868 ),
Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes
^ Hecht, Hans (1936). Robert Burns: The Man and His Work . London: William Hodge. p. 106.
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l Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
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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
978-0-618-16821-7 , retrieved via Google Books
^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French , p 501, New York: Oxford University Press (1995)
ISBN
0-19-866125-8
^ France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French , p 599, New York: Oxford University Press (1995)
ISBN
0-19-866125-8
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