1783 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
Works published
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- Lady Anne Barnard, Auld Robin Gray
- William Blake, Poetical Sketches
- Jane Cave, Poems on Various Subjects, Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious
- Judith Cowper, The Progress of Poetry
- George Crabbe, The Village
- John Hoole translator, Orlando Furioso
- Joseph Ritson, editor, A Select Collection of English Songs, anthology
- John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians
Other
- David Humphreys, United States:
- * The Glory of America; or Peace Triumphant over War
- * Poem on the Industry of the United States of America
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 3 – Washington Irving, American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
- April 21 – Reginald Heber, English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
- September 8 – N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politician
- September 23 – Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist
- December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
- January 10 – Phanuel Bacon English clergyman, playwright, poet and author
- July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German
- July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura, and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō, Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
- October 10 – Henry Brooke Irish poet and playwright
- November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker, American poet and correspondent
- December 12 – John Scott, 53, English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
- Approximate date – John Seccomb, American clergyman and poet
