1793 in poetry

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

Events

Summer - William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales. His first poems are published this year.

William Blake:
* America: A prophecy, illuminated book with 18 relief-etched plates
* For Children, illuminated book with 18 intaglio plates
* Visions of the Daughters of Albion, illuminated book with 11 relief-etched plates
Lady Sophia Burell, Poems
Robert Burns, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology, anthology
Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants, dedicated to William Cowper
George Thomson, A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, published in four volumes from this year to 1799; Volume 1 has 59 songs by Robert Burns
William Wordsworth:
* Descriptive Sketches
* An Evening Walk
Ann Yearsley, ''Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI''

Richard Alsop, American Poems
Ann Eliza Bleecker, The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, including 36 poems, 23 letters, an unfinished short historical novel, and a captivity narrative, prose and poetry
Philip Freneau, "On the Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille", in which the French Revolution is endorsed
Elihu Hubbard Smith, editor, American Poems, Selected and Original, the first notable American poetry anthology; contains poems largely from the Hartford Wits group of Connecticut poets, including poems by friends of Smith such as John Trumbull, Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight and Lemuel Hopkins, as well as Philip Freneau, William Livingston, Sarah Wentworth Morton and Robert Treat Paine; Litchfield, Connecticut: Printed by Collier and Buel;

Solomon Gessner, works, translated into French from the original German of the Swiss poet; in three volumes, published starting 1786, with the last volume published this year; posthumous after 1788

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