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1736 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published United Kingdom * John Armstrong, ''The Oeconomy of Love'', published anonymouslyCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Isaac Hawkins Browne the elder, ''A Pipe of Tobacco'', anonymously published, imitating Colly Cibber, Ambrose Philips, James Thomson, Edward Young, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift * Mather Byles, ''To His Excellency Governor Belcher, on the Death of His lady. An Epistle.'' English Colonial AmericaLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press * William Dawson, ''Poems on Several Occasions'', anonymously published; influenced by the style of Alexander Pope; English, Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1793 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Summer – William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales (passing by Tintern Abbey). His first poems are published this year. Works published United Kingdom * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina Dolfin
Caterina Dolfin (Venice, 8 May 1736 - Venice, 14 November 1793) was an Italian (Venetian) poet. Caterina was the daughter of the Nobilis Homo, N.H. Ser Antonio Giovanni Dolfin family, Dolfin and the N.H. / N.D., N.D. Donata Salamon family, Salamon, members of a secondary branch of one of the most ancient families of the Venetian aristocracy. Caterina's father was known to have squandered the family fortune, leaving serious debts to his wife and daughter upon his death in 1753. In 1755, the young "nobildonna" made a suitable marriage with Marcantonio Tiepolo, a member of another influential noble family which had the means to relieve the Dolfins of their debts. The marriage of Caterina with Marcantonio Tiepolo achieved great notoriety in Venetian society. It is understood that in 1756, only months after her marriage, Caterina entered into a relationship with Andrea Tron, a Statesman, and also member of the aristocracy, although not of the antiquity of the Dolfins. Very shortly after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1774 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events * During this year's harvest, 15-year-old Scottish poetry, Scottish farm labourer Robert Burns is assisted by his contemporary Nelly Kilpatrick who inspires his first attempt at poetry, "O, Once I Lov'd A Bonnie Lass". * Jacques Delille elected to membership in the Académie Française in large part due to his verse translation of the ''Georgics'' in 1769 in poetry, 1769 Works published American poetry, Colonial America * Hugh Henry Brackenridge, "A Poem on Divine Revelation" * Samuel Occom, editor, ''A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs'' * John Trumbull, "An Elegy on the Times" English poetry, United Kingdom * James Beattie (writer), James Beattie, ''The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius'', Book 2 (Book 1 1771 in poetry, 1771, both books published together with other verse in 1775 in poetry, 1775) * William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Jenner (writer)
Charles Jenner (1736–1774) was an English poet, novelist and Anglican cleric. Origins Charles Jenner was the eldest son of Charles Jenner, DD (1707–1770), and Mary his wife, daughter of John Sawyer of Heywood, Berkshire. His father, a grandson of Sir Thomas Jenner, Baron of the Exchequer, was a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford ( BA 1727, MA 1730, and BD and DD 1743), and became rector of Buckworth, Huntingdonshire, in 1740; chaplain to George II in 1746; prebendary of Lincoln in 1753; and archdeacon of Bedford in 1756, and of Huntingdon in 1757. Finances were always a problem, and pecuniary embarrassments ultimately forced him to leave the country. The fault was seemingly his own, since he "ran into debt with everyone; … and, at last … was forced to leave England".Gillian 2004, n.p. He died at St. Omer on 2 February 1770. He published a single sermon in 1753. A portrait came into the possession of his great-grandson, Herbert Jenner-Fust, Esq., LL.D, of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Poetry
As there is no dominant national language, the four main languages of French, Italian, German and Romansch form the four branches which make up a literature of Switzerland. The original Swiss Confederation, from its foundation in 1291 up to 1798, gained only a few French-speaking districts in what is now the Canton of Fribourg, and so the German language dominated. During that period the Swiss vernacular literature was in German, although in the 18th century, French became fashionable in Bern and elsewhere. At that time, Geneva and Lausanne were not yet Swiss: Geneva was an ally and Vaud a subject land. The French branch does not really begin to qualify as Swiss writing until after 1815, when the French-speaking regions gained full status as Swiss cantons. The Italian and Romansch-Ladin branches are less prominent. Like the earlier charters of liberties, the original League of 1291 was drawn up in Latin. Later alliances among the cantons, as well as documents concerning the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Poetry
German literature () comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects (e.g. Alemannic). Medieval German literature is literature written in Germany, stretching from the Carolingian dynasty; various dates have been given for the end of the German literary Middle Ages, the Reformation (1517) being the last possible cut-off point. The Old High German period is reckoned to run until about the mid-11th century; the most famous works are the ''Hildebrandslied'' and a heroic epic known as the ''Heliand''. Middle High German starts in the 12th century; the key works include '' The Ring'' (ca. 1410) and the poems of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Johann Jakob Bodmer (19 July 16982 January 1783) was a Swiss author, academic, critic and poet. Life Born at Greifensee, near Zürich, and first studying theology and then trying a commercial career, he finally found his vocation in letters. In 1725 he was appointed professor of Helvetian history at the ''Carolinum'' academy in Zürich, a chair which he held for half a century, and in 1735 became a member of the Cantonal Council. He died at Zürich in 1783. Works His major writings are the treatises ''Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie'' ( 1740; this and following years link to corresponding "earin poetry" articles) and ''Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter'' (1741), in which he pleaded for the freedom of the imagination from the restriction imposed upon it by French pseudo-classicism. Bodmer's epics ''Die Sundflutz'' and ''Noah'' (both 1751) are imitations of Klopstock's ''Messias'', and his plays are entirely deficient in dramatic qualities. He al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Rowe
Elizabeth Singer Rowe (née Singer, 1674–1737) was an English poet, essayist and fiction writer called "the ornament of her sex and age" and the "Heavenly Singer". She was among 18th-century England's most widely read authors. She wrote mainly religious poetry, but her best-known work, ''Friendship in Death'' (1728), is a series of imaginary letters from the dead to the living. Despite a posthumous reputation as a pious, bereaved recluse, Rowe corresponded widely and was involved in local concerns at Frome in her native Somerset. She remained popular into the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic and in translation. Though little read today, scholars have called her stylistically and thematically radical for her time. Biography Born on 11 September 1674 at Ilchester, Somerset, she was the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Portnell and Walter Singer, a dissenting minister.Pritchard, John. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.''Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. Her parents met wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1737 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *March 2 – Samuel Johnson and his former pupil David Garrick leave Lichfield to seek their fortunes in London. *English poet Richard Jago becomes curate of Snitterfield. Works published United Kingdom * Henry Carey, ''The Musical Century, in One Hundred English Ballads'', with Carey's musical settingsCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Stephen Duck, ''The Vision'', on the November 20 death of Queen Caroline * Richard Glover, ''Leonidas'', in nine books (expanded to 12 in 1770) * Matthew Green, ''The Spleen'', has been called his chief poem; with a preface by his friend Richard Glover (see also, "Deaths" below) * Alexander Pope: ** ''Horace His Ode to Venus'' ** ''The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated'' ** ''Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1735 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Alexander Pope acknowledges authorship of ''An Essay on Man''. Works published English Colonial America * James Logan, ' 'Cato's Moral Distichs' ', a verse translation, printed by Benjamin Franklin, who calls it the first translation of a classic work both created and printed in English Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books * Jane Colman Turell (died 1735), ''Reliquiate Turellae et Lachrymae Paternal'', includes letters, diary extracts, short religious essays and pious verse (see Deaths section, below; reprinted 1741 as ''Memoirs of the Life and Death of the Pious and Ingenious Mrs. Jane Turell'') United Kingdom * Joseph Addison, translator, ''The works of Anacreon translated into En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
