Overview of the events of 1787 in poetry
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Events
- April 17 – The Edinburgh edition of Scottish poet Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by William Creech including a portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth. Burns has great social success in the city's literary circles; 16-year-old Walter Scott meets him at the house of Adam Ferguson. On December 4 he meets Agnes Maclehose at a party given by Miss Erskine Nimmo.
Works published
United Kingdom
- Robert Burns:
- Anne Francis, Charlotte to Werter
- Richard Glover, The Atheniad
- James Johnson, editor, The Scots Musical Museum, an anthology with 177 of the 600 songs written by Robert Burns, who had collected many of the others; published in six volumes from this year to 1803; Volumes 2–5 edited by Burns
- George Keate, The Distressed Poet
- Sophia Lee, A Hermit's Tale, published anonymously
- Robert Merry, Paulina; or, The Russian Daughter
- John Ogilvie, The Fame of the Druids, published anonymously
- Henry James Pye, Poems on Various Subjects, including "Aerophorion", possibly the first poem about an aviator (James Sadler (balloonist))
- Edward Rushton, West-Indian Eclogues, published anonymously
- John Thelwall, Poems on Various Subjects
- John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Ode Upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James
- Ann Yearsley, Poems, on Various Subjects
United States
- Joel Barlow, The Vision of Columbus, nine books; describes America as prosperous and improving, seeks to promote "the love of national liberty" in Americans (revised as The Columbiad 1807)
- James Beattie, Poems on Several Occasions
- Peter Markoe, Miscellaneous Poems
Other
- Jean-François Marmontel, Éléments de littérature, including rewritten parts of Poétique française (1763), French criticism
- Évariste-Désiré Parny, Chansons madécasses, prose poems (later set to music by Ravel); France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- May 14 – Alexander Laing (died 1857), Scottish poet
- November 15 – Richard Henry Dana Sr. (died 1879), American poet, critic and lawyer
- November 21 – Bryan Procter ("Barry Cornwall") (died 1874), English poet
- December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford (died 1855), English novelist, poet and dramatist
- Margaret Miller Davidson Sr. (died 1844), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson
- Susanna Hawkins (died 1868), Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 13 – Ruđer Bošković (born 1711), Ragusan polymath and poet
- September 1 – Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (born 1724), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
- September – Moses Browne (born 1704), English poet and clergyman
- November 3 – Robert Lowth (born 1710), English Anglican Bishop, poet, professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, grammarian who wrote one of the most influential textbooks on English grammar
- December 18 – Soame Jenyns (born 1704), English writer and poet
See also
Notes
- Hecht, Hans (1936). Robert Burns: The Man and His Work. London: William Hodge. p. 106.
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ 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
- 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 501, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 599, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8