1767 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement begins in German literature and music; it will last through the early 1780s..
Works published
- Michael Bruce, Elegy Written in Spring
- Francis Fawkes, Partridge-Shooting: An eclogue
- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, The Beauties of English Poesy, an anthology
- Francis Hopkinson, the Psalms of David in Metre, English, Colonial America
- Richard Jago, Edge-Hill; or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised
- Henry Jones, Kew Gardens
- Moses Mendes, editor, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, an anthology
- William Mickle, The Concubine
- John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Use of Families
- Phillis Wheatley, a poem published in the Newport Mercury in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761; Colonial America
Works wrongly said to be published this year
- Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology; although the book states it was published this year, it first appeared in 1766
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 1 - Alexander Balfour, Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet
- September 8 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet, translator, critic, and a leader of German Romanticism
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- May 17 - Roger Wolcott, English Colonial American, governor of Connecticut and poet
- June 25 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and poet
- July 15 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet
- December 21 - Leonard Howard, English clergyman, "poet laureate of the King's Bench Prison"