Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
German poet and critic Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg begins publication of his Briefe über Merkwürdigkeiten der Litteratur in which he formulates the literary principles of Sturm und Drang.
Mark Akenside, An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards
John Cunningham, Poems, Chiefly Pastoral
Isaac D'Israeli, The Literary Character
John Freeth, The Political Songster
Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology published this year, although the book states "1767"
Francis Hopkinson, "A Psalm of Thanksgiving", English, Colonial America
Charles Jenner, Poems
Thomas Letchworh, "A Morning and Evening's Meditation; or, A Descant on the Times", English, Colonial America
Henry James Pye, Beauty
Anna Williams, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 27 - Vasily Pushkin (died 1830), Russian poet
December 3 - Robert Bloomfield (died 1823), English "ploughboy poet"
Nguyễn Du (died 1820), Vietnamese poet
Maharaja Chandu Lal (died 1845), Indian Urdu- and Persian-language poet and politician
Martha Llwyd (died 1845), Welsh poet and hymnodist
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
September 23 - John Brown (born 1715), English clergyman, essayist and poet
c. November - Catherine Jemmat, née Yeo (born c.1714), English memoirist and anthologist
December 12 - Johann Christoph Gottsched (born 1700), German critic
December 24 - James Grainger (born c.1721), Scottish-born doctor, poet and translator, of "West Indian fever" in Saint Kitts
Robert Andrews (born 1723), English Presbyterian minister, poet and translator, insane
Hazin Lahiji (born 1692), Persian poet and scholar
