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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Aragon, Part 1 (complete work first published in The Works of mrs Cowley 1813)^[1]
George Crabbe, The Candidate, published anonymously in July^[1]
Herbert Croft, The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980, published anonymously; satirical epitaphs on contemporary public figures^[1]
Susannah Harrison, Songs in the Night, "By a Young Woman Under Deep Afflictions", the book went into 15 editions by 1823^[1]
William Hayley, An Essay on History^[1]
Anna Seward, Elegy on Captain Cook, on James Cook, who died February 13, 1779, in Hawaii^[1]

John Andre, "Cow-Chace, in Three Cantos, Published on Occasion of the Rebel General Wayne's Attack of the Refugees Block-House on Hudson's river, on Friday the 21st of July, 1780^[2]
Joel Barlow, An Elegy on the Late Honorahble Titus Hosmer^[2]
Samuel Dexter, The Progress of Science^[2]
Timothy Dwight IV, attributed, America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies^[2]
Jonathan Odell, attributed, "The American Times"^[2]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

March 29 – Walter Watson (died 1854), Scottish poet and weaver
April 29 – Charles Nodier (died 1844), French philologist, novelist, poet and librarian
August 17 – George Croly (died 1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and clergyman
September 11 (bapt.) – John Marriott (died 1825), English clergyman and poet
Paul Moon James (died 1854), English Quaker banker and poet
Jahonotin Uvaysiy (died 1845), Uzbek Sufi poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 18 – Kristijonas Donelaitis (born 1714), Lithuanian poet
September 6 – George Alexander Stevens (born 1710), English performer, playwright, poet and songwriter
October 3 – Cynthia Lenige (born 1755), Frisian Dutch poet
Angom Gopi (born 1710), Indian, Meitei language poet, writer and translator
Joseph Green (born 1706), Colonial American poet, satirist and clergyman
Antonina Niemiryczowa (born 1702), Polish poet

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press