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1759 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *August 12 — Battle of Kunersdorf (Seven Years' War): German poet Major Ewald Christian von Kleist is fatally injured. *September 12 — Just before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in the Seven Years' War, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited Thomas Gray's ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' (1751) to his officers, adding, "Gentlemen, I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec tomorrow". *Christopher Smart, confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, begins to write ''Jubilate Agno''. *Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch becomes professor of rhetoric and poetry at the University of Jena. Works published * Samuel Butler (died 1680), ''The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose'', posthumous * Edward Capell, editor, '' Prolusions; or, Select Pieces of Antient Poetry'', published anonymously this year, altho ... [...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] |
University Of Jena
The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. In the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the university was awarded 189th place in the world. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling and Friedrich Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university was at the centre of the emergence of German idealism and early Romanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean Poetry
Caribbean poetry is vast and rapidly evolving field of poetry written by people from the Caribbean region and the diaspora. Caribbean poetry generally refers to a myriad of poetic forms, spanning epic, lyrical verse, prose poems, dramatic poetry and oral poetry, composed in Caribbean territories regardless of language. It is most often, however, written in English, Spanish, Spanglish, French, Hindustani, Dutch, or any number of creoles. Poetry in English from the former British West Indies has been referred to as Anglo-Caribbean poetry or West Indian poetry. Since the mid-1970s, Caribbean poetry has gained increasing visibility with the publication in Britain and North America of several anthologies. Over the decades the canon has shifted and expanded, drawing both on oral and literary traditions and including more women poets and politically charged works. Caribbean writers, performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters have created a popular art form, a poetry hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Williams (poet)
Francis Williams (–1770) was a scholar and poet born in Kingston, Jamaica, who travelled to Europe and became a citizen of Britain. In the 1720s, he returned to Jamaica, where he set up a free school for the children of Free black people in Jamaica. Early life and family Francis Williams was born around 1700 to John and Dorothy Williams, a free black couple in the Colony of Jamaica. John Williams had been freed in 1699 by the will of his former master.''Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica'', Vol. 2, 19 November 1724, pp. 509–512. The Williams family's status as free, property-owning black people set them apart from other Jamaican inhabitants, who were at the time mostly British colonists and enslaved Africans. Eventually, the Williams family property expanded to include both land and slaves. Though it was rare for black people in the 18th century to receive an education, Francis Williams and his siblings were able to afford schooling due to their father's wealth. Franci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Toplady
Augustus Montague Toplady (4 November 174011 August 1778) was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages". Three of his other hymns – "A Debtor to Mercy Alone", "Deathless Principle, Arise" and "Object of My First Desire" – are still occasionally sung today. Background and early life, 1740–55 Augustus Toplady was born in Farnham, Surrey, England in November 1740. His father, Richard Toplady, was probably from Enniscorthy, County Wexford in Ireland. Richard Toplady became a commissioned officer in the Royal Marines in 1739; by the time of his death, he had reached the rank of major. In May 1741, shortly after Augustus' birth, Richard participated in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741), the most significant battle of the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–42), during the course of which he died, most likely of yellow fever, leaving Augustus' mother to raise the boy alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mason (poet)
William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English poet, divine, amateur draughtsman, author, editor and gardener. Life He was born in Hull and educated at Hull Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1754 and held a number of posts in the church. In 1747, his poem "Musaeus, a Monody on the Death of Mr. Pope" was published to acclaim and quickly went through several editions. Summarizing this poem, a threnody, William Lyon Phelps writes: Among his other works are the historical tragedies ''Elfrida'' (1752) and ''Caractacus'' (1759) (both used in translation as libretti for 18th century operas: ''Elfrida'' - Paisiello and LeMoyne, ''Caractacus'' - Sacchini (as '' Arvire et Évélina'') and a long poem on gardening, ''The English Garden'' (three volumes, 1772–82). His garden designs included one for the Viscount Harcourt. He entered the Church in 1754, and in 1762 became the precentor and canon of York Minster. He was the frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Latter
Mary Latter (1725 – 28 March 1777) was an English poet, essayist and playwright of the 18th century. Biography Mary Latter, the daughter of a country attorney, was born at Henley-on-Thames in 1725. She settled at Reading, Berkshire, where her mother, a milliner, died in 1748. Her income was small, and she indulged a propensity for witty and satiric poetry, winning at least one comparison with Swift. Among her early attempts were some verses ''descriptive of the persons and characters of several ladies in Reading'', which she thought proper to disown in a rhymed advertisement inserted in the ''Reading Mercury'', 17 November 1740. In 1759 she published, by subscription ''The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse, of Mrs. Mary Latter'', in three parts, consisting respectively of epistolary correspondence, poems, and soliloquies, and (part iii.) a sort of prose poem, prompted by a perusal of Edward Young's ''Night Thoughts'', and entitled ''A Retrospective View of Indigence, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Greville
Frances Greville née Macartney (c 1724 – 1789) was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England. She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; one of four daughters of James Macartney and Catherine (née Coote), daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. By the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Horace Walpole's poem ''The Beauties'' (1746) mentions her as "Fanny" among the most prominent women at court. Frances married Fulke Greville of Wilbury House (Wiltshire) in 1748 after an elopement. Greville was a gambler and a dandy, but that he loved his wife is witnessed by her presence (under the character of "Flora" in his ''Maxims, Characters, and Reflections'' (1756)). Frances is believed to have contributed to the volume herself. Frances Greville's own career as an amateur poet was marked by one resounding success: her poem, "Prayer for Indifference", first published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1733 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 * Anonymous, ''Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace'', "By a lady", has been attributed to Lady Mary Wortley MontaguCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * John Banks, ''Poems on Several Occasions'' * Samuel Bowden, ''Poetical Essays on Several Occasions'', Volume 1 (Volume 2 published 1735) * James Bramston, ''The Man of Taste'', response to Alexander Pope's ''Epistle to Burlington'' 1731 (see also Thomas Newcomb's ''The Woman of Taste'', below) * John Durant Breval, writing under the pen name "Joseph Gay", ''Morality in Vice: An heroi-comical poem'', republished this year as ''The Lure of Venus'' * Mary Chandler, ''A Description of Bath'' * Thomas Fitzgerald, ''Poems on Several Occasions'' * Matthew Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (August 29, 1709 – June 16, 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem ''Vert-Vert''. Life He was born at Amiens. During the last twenty-five years of his life, he regretted the frivolity of his youth, which enabled him to produce his most famous poem. He was brought up by the Jesuits of Amiens. Accepted as a novice at the age of seventeen, he was sent to study at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. After completing his course he was appointed, at the age of nineteen, to a post as assistant master in a college at Rouen. Gresset published ''Vert-Vert'' at Rouen in 1734. It is the humorous story of a parrot, the delight of a convent whose talk was all of prayers and pious ambitions, and how it was conveyed to another convent as a visitor to please the nuns. On the way it falls among bad companions, forgets its convent language, and shocks the sisters on arrival by profane swearing. It is sent back in disgrace, punished by solitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gilbert Cooper
John Gilbert Cooper or John Gilbert (24 August 1722 – 21 April 1769) was a British poet and writer. Biography John Gilbert was born in Lockington, Leicestershire. His father was left a legacy which included Thurgarton Priory which he was allowed if he changed his name to Cooper. John Gilbert Cooper was educated locally and then at Westminster School.Robin Dix, ‘Cooper, John Gilbert (1722–1769)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, 200accessed 28 May 2011/ref> He completed his education at Trinity College, Cambridge. Cooper first published poetry in 1742 occasionally until he became a regular contributor to ''The Museum'' which was published by Robert Dodsley. His contributions to Dodsley's journal was under the nom de plume of ''Philaretes''.John Gilbert Coop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1760 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * June–October – James Macpherson makes his first tour of the Scottish Highlands and Islands to seek out traditional Gaelic poetry. * October 25 – With the death of King George II of Great Britain, the era of Augustan poetry and Augustan literature, which started in 1702, is considered to have ended. Works published * James Beattie, ''Original Poems and Translations'' * John Cleland, ''The Times!'', Volume 1, a verse satire * George Cockings, ''War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of ''Minorca'' by the French to the Reduction of the ''Havannah, a 28-page poem supporting British generals; the poem would be republished three more times by 1765; 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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