1769 in poetry
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Events
- May - First publication of one of 16-year-old English poet Thomas Chatterton's poems attributed to the imaginary medieval monk "Thomas Rowley", "Elinoure and Juga", in Alexander Hamilton's Town and Country Magazine. This year also Chatterton sends specimens of "Rowley"’s poetry and history The Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Englade to Horace Walpole who at first offers to print them but, discovering Chatterton's age and rightly considering the pieces might be forgeries, later scornfully dismisses him.
Works published
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- Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, The Siege of Jerusalem, drama
- Thomas Chatterton, "Elinoure and Juga"
- Thomas Gray, Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769
- Richard Hurd, Ancient and Modern Scots Songs
- John Ogilvie, Paradise, published anonymously
- Clara Reeve, Original Poems on several Occasions
- Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom, published anonymously
Other
- Jacques Delille, verse translation of Virgil's Georgics from the original Latin into French; the translation led to the author's award of the chair of Latin poetry at the Collège de France and membership in the Académie Française in 1774
- Basílio da Gama, O Uraguai, an epic Brazilian poem
- Jean-François, marquis de Saint-Lambert, Saisons, modeled on Thomson's Seasons
- Martin Wieland, Musarion, Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- May 21 - John Hookham Frere, English diplomat, poet and author
- November 12 - Amelia Opie, English novelist and poet
- December 7 - Ann Batten Cristall, English poet
- December 26 - Ernst Moritz Arndt, German patriotic author and poet
- Also:
- * Robert Hetrick, Scottish poet and blacksmith
- * George Howe, Saint Christopher Island-born Australian printer and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 5 - James Merrick, English poet and scholar
- January 20 - Sneyd Davies, English poet and churchman
- November 27 - Kamo no Mabuchi 賀茂真淵, Japanese Edo period poet and philologist
- December 13 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet