1784 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 ended in German literature and music, which began in the late 1760s. The conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse".
Phillis Wheatley advertises in the September issue of The Boston Magazine for subscribers to a volume of poetry she proposes to publish, but the volume never appears, apparently for lack of support; United States

Anonymous, Rolliad
Mary Alcock, The Air Balloon
Thomas Chatterton, A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, poetry and prose, published posthumously
Richard Jago, Poems, Moral and Descriptive
Anna Seward, Louisa: A poetical novel
Charlotte Turner Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Essays
Helen Maria Williams:
* An Ode on the Peace
* ''Peru''

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 31 - Bernard Barton, English Quaker poet
June 17 - Andrew Crosse, English 'gentleman scientist' and poet
May 18 - William Tennant, Scottish poet
July 27 - Denis Davydov, Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars, inventor of a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
October 19 - Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist, poet and writer
November 17 - Julia Nyberg, Swedish poet and songwriter
December 7 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 17 - Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村, Japanese, Edo period poet and painter; along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period and one of the greatest haiku poets of all time
February 2 - Henry Alline, American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
February 14 - Charlotta Löfgren, Swedish poet
March 17 - Anne Penny, Welsh-born poet
May 20 - Alexander Ross, Scottish poet
November 1 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, French man of letters
December 5 - Phillis Wheatley, American poet, died in poverty while working on a second book of poetry, subsequently lost
December 13 - Dr. Samuel Johnson, English writer, poet, lexicographer, editor and literary critic
Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese, philosopher, poet, encyclopedist and government official