1789 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

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Works published[]

Ireland[]

Charlotte Brooke, Reliques of Irish Poetry, anthology published in the United Kingdom^[1]
John Williams, publishing under the pen name "Anthony Pasquin", Poems: by Anthon Pasquin, Irish poet and satirist published in the United Kingdom^[1]

United Kingdom[]

William Blake:
- The Book of Thel, with eight relief-etched plates^[1]
- Songs of Innocence, the author's first illuminated book, with 31 relief-etched plates (see also Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul 1794);^[1] Songs of Innocence contains the following (some, as noted below, were later "paired" with a poem having the same title in Songs of Experience):
  - Introduction
  - "The Shepherd"
  - "The Ecchoing Green"
  - "The Little Black Boy"
  - "The Blossom"
  - "Laughing Song"
  - "A Cradle Song"
  - "Night"
  - "Spring"
  - "A Dream"
  - "On Anothers Sorrow"
  - "Nurse's Song" (paired)
  - "Infant Joy" (paired)
  - "The Lamb" (paired)
  - "Holy Thursday" (paired)
  - "Holy Thursday" (paired)
  - "The Chimney Sweeper" (paired)
  - "The Little Boy lost" (paired)
  - "The Little Boy Found" (paired)
  - "The Divine Image" (paired)
  - "The Little Girl Lost" (paired)
  - "The Little Girl Found" (paired)
  - "The Tyger" (paired)
  - "The Human Abstract" (paired)
  - "Infant Sorrow" (paired)
Charlotte Brooke, Reliques of Irish Poetry, anthology^[1]
Thomas Cary, Abram's Plains, a long poem, the first English poetry published in Canada; private printing in Quebec^[2]
Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants,^[1] the work proved popular and was republished in 1791 as the second part of The Botanic Garden
John Ogilvie, The Fane of the Druids^[1]
Thomas Russell, Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems^[1]
John Williams, publishing under the pen name "Anthony Pasquin", Poems: by Anthony Pasquin, Irish poet and satirist published in the United Kingdom^[1]
Mary Wollstonecraft, writing under the pen name "Mr. Cresswick", The Female Reader: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse; selected from the best writers, and disposed under proper heads; for the improvement of young women. By Mr. Cresswick, teacher of elocution. To which is prefixed a preface, containing some hints on female education, London: Joseph Johnson, prose and poetry anthology

Other[]

Jens Baggesen, Holger the Dane, a poem in which the author ridiculed the author's fellow Danes and expressed the wish of becoming a German; the author left Denmark for Germany as a result of the poem; published in the Spring; Denmark^[3]
Elijah Fitch, the Beauties of Religion. A Poem, Addressed to Youth, United States^[4]
Philip Phile, "The President's March", composed for the inauguration of George Washington, later retitled Hail, Columbia and arranged with lyrics by Joseph Hopkinson in 1798, when it stirred patriotic feelings in the United States at a time when war with France seemed imminent, United States^[5]

Births[]

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

Charlotte Elliott (died 1871), English poet and hymn writer
William Knox (died 1825), Scottish poet and journalist
Thomas Pringle (died 1834), Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist
Richard Henry Wilde (died 1847), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet

Deaths[]

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

November 16 – Konrad Arnold Schmid (born 1716), German
Frances Brooke (born 1724), English novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and translator
Frances Greville (born 1724), Irish poet

Notes[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Tremaine, Marie, and Patricia L. Fleming, A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800: 1751 - 1800, page xxi, University of Toronto Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8020-4219-4, retrieved via Google Books, February 8, 2009
↑ Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 179, Dial Press, 1938, New York
↑ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993

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[cocel-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

[2] Tremaine, Marie, and Patricia L. Fleming, A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800: 1751 - 1800, page xxi, University of Toronto Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8020-4219-4, retrieved via Google Books, February 8, 2009

[3] Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner, The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day, p 179, Dial Press, 1938, New York

[rmlaal-4] Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

[gceafd-5] Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993

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