1771 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- April 9 - Portuguese poet Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal.
- English poet William Mason is employed to lay out a flower garden at Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire by Viscount Nuneham.
Works published
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- Jane Dunlap, Poems upon Several Sermons Preached by the Rev'd George Whitefield, Colonial Massachusetts
- Levi Frisbie, "A Poem on the Rise and Progress of Moor's Indian Charity School", English, Colonial America
- John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Buckingham St. John", English, Colonial America
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- James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius, Book 1,
- James Cawthorn, Poems
- John Langhorne, The Fables of Flora
- Henry Mackenzie, Pursuits of Happiness, published anonymously after a stay in London; Scottish
- Thomas Percy, The Hermit of Warkworth, published anonymously
- Henry James Pye, The Triumph of Fashion
- John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, published in 32 volumes by the Methodist divine and hymn writer
- Phillis Wheatley, an elegy to George Whitefield first published in Colonial America in 1770, where it received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in Newport, Rhode Island, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport.
Other
- Ambrosius Stub, Arier og andre poetiske Stykker, edited by T. S. Heiberg; Denmark, posthumous
- Christoph Martin Wieland, Der neue Amadis, a comic poem in 18 cantos; Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 21 - Thomas John Dibdin, English dramatist and songwriter
- June 3 - Sydney Smith, English writer, wit and Anglican clergyman
- August 15 - Walter Scott, Scottish poet and historical novelist
- October 25 - Robert Lovell, English poet
- November 4 - James Montgomery, Scottish editor and poet
- November 11 - Thomas Green Fessenden,, American
- December 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth, English author, poet and diarist
- Bankidas Asiya, Rajasthani poet and scholar
- Liang Desheng, Chinese poet and writer during the Qing dynasty
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- July 30 - Thomas Gray, English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous 1750 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, one of only 13 published in his lifetime
- May 21 - Christopher Smart, English poet
- August 19 - Daniel Schiebeler, German writer and poet
- September 13 - John Gambold, Anglo-Welsh bishop of the Moravian church and poet
- September 17 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish poet and author
- October 2 - James Plumptre, English clergyman, dramatist and hymnodist
- December 23 - Johann Friedrich Löwen, German poet, intellectual, drama theorist and at one time a confidant of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Francis Williams, black Jamaican scholar and poet