Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
John Codrington Bampfylde, Sixteen Sonnets
William Combe, The Auction
George Ellis, writing under the pen name "Sir Gregory Gander", Poetical Tales
William Hayley, A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter, published anonymously; addressed to George Romney
Vicesimus Knox, Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists, a critical essay
John Scott, Moral Eclogues, published anonymously
Percival Stockdale, Inquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular Defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope
John Wolcot, writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers
Joel Barlow, The Prospect of Peace
William Billings, Chester
Francis Hopkinson:
"The Battle of the Kegs", United States
"Date Obolum Bellisario"
"The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat"
Ippolit Bogdanovich, Dushenka, a long poem and his best-known work, Russia
Johannes Ewald, Kong Christian stod ved höjen Mast ("King Christian Stood by the Lofty mast"), a popular song in his melodrama The Fishermen, which later became the Danish national anthem (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later translated it into English)
Johann Gottfried Herder - Volkslieder nebst untermischten anderen Stücken
Évariste de Parny - Les Poésies érotiques
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 6 – Ugo Foscolo (died 1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
April 10 – William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer, essayist and critic
August 22 – James Kirke Paulding (died 1860), American novelist, poet and United States Secretary of the Navy; a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed
September 9 – Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
December 22 – Anna Maria Porter (died 1832), English poet and novelist
Robert Davidson (died 1855), Scottish peasant poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 30 – Voltaire (born 1694), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
August 11 – Augustus Toplady (born 1740), English Anglican clergyman, poet and hymn-writer
Rob Donn (born 1714), Scottish Gaelic poet
