1777 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published February 8
William Combe:
* The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham
* The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly
Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously
William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison
William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously
Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition
Paul Whitehead, ''Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions''

Anonymous, Song: made on the taking of General Burgoyne, a broadside of 21 four-line verses, published with no information on the place or printer
Anonymous, Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all , "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pages
Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at Sinai
Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad"

Solomon Gessner, works, German-language, Switzerland; in two volumes, published this year and in 1777
Pierre Le Tourneur, Poésies galliques, translation into French from the original English of James Macpherson's Ossian poems

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January 27 - Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
March 14 - John Blair Linn, American
July 27 - Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
December 2 - Hendrik Doeff, the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese

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