1777 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1777 in poetry

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Events

March 1 (Saint David's Day) – Welsh ship's surgeon David Samwell, on board HMS Resolution in the Pacific Ocean on the second voyage of James Cook, writes a penillion.

Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published February 8 (see also Tyrwhitt, A Vindication 1782)^[1]
William Combe:
- The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham^[1]
- The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly^[1]
Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously^[1]
William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison^[1]
William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously^[1]
Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition^[1]
Paul Whitehead, Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions^[1]

Anonymous, Song: made on the taking of General Burgoyne, a broadside of 21 four-line verses, published with no information on the place or printer^[2]
Anonymous ("H. I."), Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all rebellion's (sic), "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pages^[3]
Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at Sinai^[4]
Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad"^[4]

Solomon Gessner, works, German-language, Switzerland; in two volumes, published this year and in 1777
Pierre Le Tourneur, Poésies galliques, translation into French from the original English of James Macpherson's Ossian poems^[5]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 27 – Lukijan Mušicki (died 1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
March 14 – John Blair Linn (died 1804), American^[6]
July 27 – Thomas Campbell (died 1844), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
December 2 – Hendrik Doeff (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator, editor and composer
February 3 – Hugh Kelly (born 1739), Irish poet and dramatist
March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
August 26 – Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
September 24 (bur.) – James Fortescue (born 1716), English
October 12 (October 1 O.S.) – Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and dramatist
December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 349, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
^ Evans, Charles, American Bibliography, Volume 5, p 319, Chicago: Hollister Press, 1949
^ ^a ^b 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 456, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

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