1781 in poetry

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Events

A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this year. The scene shows the friends of Reynolds, including poets Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Warton - many of whom were members of "The Club" (use cursor to identify).

• George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke asking for financial assistance. The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.^[1]

Works published

United Kingdom

• William Cowper, Anti-Thelyphthora, published anonymously (see also Martin Madan's Thelyphthora 1780)^[2]
• George Crabbe, The Library, published anonymously^[2]
• Anne Francis, A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon^[2]
• William Hayley, The Triumphs of Temper^[2]
• George Keate, Poetical Works^[2]
• Samuel Jackson Pratt, Sympathy; or, A Sketch of the Social Passion, published anonymously^[2]
• Anna Seward, Monody on Major André, on John André, hanged as a spy in the American Revolution

United States

• Philip Freneau, The British Prison-Ship: A Poem^[3]
• William Hayley, "The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem"^[3]
• Francis Hopkinson, The Temple of Minerva^[3]
• Anna Seward, Monody on Major Andre^[3]

Other

• Santa Rita Durão, Caramuru, Portuguese poem written in Brazil

Births

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

• January 26 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (died 1831), German poet and novelist
• March 17 – Ebenezer Elliott (died 1849), English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer
• September 12 – John Grieve (died 1836), Scottish poet
• November 6 – Lucy Aikin (died 1864), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator
• December 25? – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet

Deaths

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

• February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729), German poet
• March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet^[4]
• May 8 – Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet
• June 25 – Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 1711), German poet
• November 4 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (born 1721), German poet
• Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet, shot

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• French literature of the 18th century
• Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

Notes

1. Ainger, Alfred (1903). Crabbe. New York: Macmillan, pp. 31-32.
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. Grun, Bernard, The Timetables of History, third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328