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Overview of the events of 1795 in poetry
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Irish or
France ).
Events
Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795, by Peter Vandyke
Works published
William Blake ,
Prophetic books :
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,
Sonnets on Eminent Characters , also known as Sonnets on Eminent Contemporaries , a series of 11 sonnets published in the
Morning Chronicle from December 1,
1794 to January 29, this year; these three were published this year:
Joseph Cottle , published anonymously, Poems
[2]
Ann Batten Cristall , Poetical Sketches
[2]
William Drennan , Erin
[3]
William Hayley , The National Advocates
[2]
Walter Savage Landor :
Published anonymously, Moral Epistle to Lord Stanhope
[2]
The Poems of Walter Savage Landor , suppressed by the author
[2]
Joseph Ritson , editor, Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems
Mary Robinson , Poems, by Mrs. Mary Robinson. A New Edition
Robert Southey and
Robert Lovell , Poems
[2]
John Thelwall , Poems Written in Close Confinement in the Tower and Newgate , the author was arrested in 1794 and sent to the
Tower of London
[2]
Philip Morin Freneau , Poems Written Between the Years 1768 and 1794 , 287 poems, including previously unpublished work and revised poems (omitting Latin mottoes, for instance, in order to communicate better with a broader group of readers); he published the work on his own printing press, but although he and the booksellers had high hopes for it, the reception is poor
[4]
Robert Treat Paine, Jr. , "The Invention of Letters" commencement verse delivered at Harvard University; described the history of thought, eulogized Washington and attacked
Jacobins
[4]
Isaac Story , Liberty
[5]
Charles Pinkney Sumner , The Compass
[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
August 7 –
Joseph Rodman Drake (died
1820 ),
American whose poetry is first published posthumously in
1835
August 30 –
Amable Tastu (Sabine Casimire Amable Voïart) (died
1885 ),
French women of letters and poet
September 15 –
James Gates Percival (died
1856 ),
American poet and geologist
September 29 (September 18
O.S. ) –
Kondraty Ryleyev (hanged
1826 ),
Russian poet and revolutionary
October 12 –
Janet Hamilton , née Thomson (died
1873 ),
Scottish poet and essayist
October 31 –
John Keats (died
1821 ),
English Romantic lyric poet
December 4 –
Thomas Carlyle (died
1881 ),
Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian, teacher and critic
Also –
George Darley (died
1846 ),
Irish poet, novelist and critic
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 11 –
Carl Michael Bellman (born
1740 ),
Swedish poet and songwriter
[6]
April 22 –
Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (born
1715 ),
Irish poet
July 31 –
Basílio da Gama , writing as Termindo Sipílio (born
1740 ),
Brazilian Jesuit and epic poet
August 20 –
William Jones (born
1726 ),
Welsh radical, poet and antiquary
September 22 –
Sayat-Nova (born
1712 ), Armenian musician and poet, executed
September 30 –
George Butt (born
1741 ),
English chaplain and poet
November 17 –
Samuel Bishop (born
1731 ),
English poet, essayist and schoolmaster
Also –
Hedvig Sirenia (born
1734 ), Swedish poet
See also
Notes
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b O'Beirne, Amy (2015).
"Bristol and Romanticism: Walking Guide" (PDF) . Bristol Festival of Ideas. Retrieved 2015-11-10 .
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j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
^ McBride, I. R. (2004).
"Drennan, William (1754–1820)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/8046 . Retrieved 2013-08-19 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^
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
^
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b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 340.
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