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Overview of the events of 1791 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1791 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
William Bartram 's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws contains enthusiastic descriptions of scenery that influence writers including
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , who calls the book one of "high merit", and
William Wordsworth .
[1]
Scottish poet
Robert Burns gives up farming for a full-time post as an
exciseman in
Dumfries , writes "
Ae Fond Kiss ", "
The Banks O' Doon " and "
Sweet Afton ", and publishes his last major poem, the narrative "
Tam o' Shanter " (written 1790 and first published on 18 March 1791 in the Edinburgh Herald ; also published in F. Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland , volume 2, this year).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge composes "
On Quitting School ", marking his transfer from
Christ's Hospital school to
Jesus College, Cambridge , although it will not be published until
1834 , after his death.
Works published in English
Title page from
The Botanic Garden by
Erasmus Darwin
John Aikin , Poems
[2]
William Blake , published anonymously, "The French Revolution"
[2]
Robert Burns , "
Tam o' Shanter ", published
William Cowper , The Iliad and the Odyssey
[2]
Erasmus Darwin ,
The Botanic Garden ,
[2] consisting of two poems about scientific matters and their implications: "The Loves of the Plants", which became popular when it was originally published separately in
1789 , and "The Economy of Vegetation", which celebrates technological innovation, scientific discovery and offers scientific theories. The poems, thought to be associated with the politics of the French Revolution and sexual licentiousness, were controversial (see the parody Loves of the Triangles
1798 )
William Gifford , published anonymously, The Baviad
[2]
Francis Grose , The Antiquities of Scotland , Volume 2 (Volume 1 published in
1789 ); including "
Tam o' Shanter " by
Robert Burns
[2]
George Huddesford , editor and author, published anonymously, Salmagundi: A miscellaneous combination of original poetry , largely written by Huddesford
Richard Polwhele , Poems
[2]
Christopher Smart , The Poems of the late
Christopher Smart , edited by
Francis Newbey , assisted by Smart's nephew, Christopher Hunter
Richard Alsop ,
Theodore Dwight ,
Elihu Hubbard Smith ,
Lemuel Hopkins and
Mason Cogswell , The Echo ,
Federalist verse satire ridiculing
Thomas Jefferson and other anti-Federalists; published first in the American Mercury
[3]
Benjamin Youngs Prime , Columbia's Glory , depicting the
Revolutionary War , the only work by the author to be published under his own name
[3]
Jenny Fenno , Occasional Compositions in Prose and Verse ,
United States
[4]
Thomas Morris , Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
[5]
Benjamin Youngs Prime , Columbia's Glory, or British Pride Humbled
[5]
Works published in other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 –
Franz Grillparzer (died
1872 ),
Austrian dramatic poet
February 10 –
Ōtagaki Rengetsu (died
1875 ),
Japanese Buddhist nun, poet, potter, painter and calligrapher
June 9 –
John Howard Payne (died
1852 ),
American actor, playwright, author and American consul in
Tunis (1842–1852); most remembered as creator of "
Home! Sweet Home! "
[7]
September 1 –
Lydia Sigourney , the "Sweet Singer of
Hartford " (died
1865 ),
American poet
[7]
September 7 –
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (died
1863 ),
Italian poet famous for his sonnets in
Romanesco , the dialect of Rome
October 3 –
Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (died
1847 ),
Bosnian –
Serbian
poet ,
hajduk ,
translator ,
historian ,
philologist ,
diplomat and
adventurer
December 14:
date not known –
Paramananda (died
1870 or
1874 ),
Indian ,
Kashmiri -language poet
[9]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 11 –
William Williams Pantycelyn (born
1717 ),
Welsh poet, prose and hymn writer
March 15 –
William Woty (born
1731 ?),
English writer of light verse and law clerk
June 12 –
Francis Grose (born
1731 ),
English antiquary, draughtsman and lexicographer
June 27 –
Johann Heinrich Merck (born
1741 ),
German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet; from suicide
June 28 (June 17
O.S. ) –
John Wesley (born
1703 ),
English cleric and Christian theologian, founder of
Methodism , psalmist and hymnist
July 7 –
Thomas Blacklock (born
1721 ), blind
Scottish poet
September 17 –
Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa (born
1750 ),
Spanish neoclassical poet
September 18 –
Elias Caspar Reichard (born
1714 ),
German teacher and writer
October 10 –
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (born
1739 ),
German poet, organist, composer and journalist
December 31 –
John Ellis (born
1698 ),
English scrivener and poet
date not known –
John Frederick Bryant (born
1753 ),
English pipe-maker and poet
See also
Notes
^ Carruth, Gorton (1993).
The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates (9th ed.). HarperCollins.
^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
^
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
978-0-618-16821-7 , retrieved via Google Books
^ 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
978-0-19-509053-6 , retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
^
a
b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Web page titled
"Basílio da Gama/Bibliografia" at the Academia Brasilia Letros website, retrieved February 4, 2009
^
a
b Web page titled
"American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Dalal, Roshen (2014). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide . Penguin.
ISBN
9788184752779 .
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