Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature (including poetry) and music, which began in the late 1760s. The conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse".
Phillis Wheatley advertises in the September issue of The Boston Magazine for subscribers to a volume of poetry she proposes to publish, but the volume never appears, apparently for lack of support; United States
Anonymous, Rolliad
Mary Alcock, The Air Balloon
Thomas Chatterton, A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, poetry and prose (see also, Miscellanies 1778), published posthumously (died 1770)
Richard Jago, Poems, Moral and Descriptive
Anna Seward, Louisa: A poetical novel
Charlotte Turner Smith, Elegaic Sonnets, and Other Essays (see also Elegaic Sonnets 1797)
Helen Maria Williams:
An Ode on the Peace
Peru
Évariste de Parny, Élégies, France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 31 – Bernard Barton (died 1849), English Quaker poet
May 18 – William Tennant (died 1848), Scottish poet
July 27 – Denis Davydov (died 1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars, inventor of a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), Swedish poet and songwriter
December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842), Scottish poet and author
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 17 – Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (born 1716), Japanese, Edo period poet and painter; along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period and one of the greatest haiku poets of all time (surname: Yosa)
February 2 – Henry Alline (born 1748), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
February 14 – Charlotta Löfgren (born 1720), Swedish poet
March 17 – Anne Penny (born 1729), Welsh-born poet
May 20 – Alexander Ross (born 1699), Scottish poet
November 1 – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (born 1709), French man of letters
December 5 – Phillis Wheatley (born 1753), American poet, died in poverty while working on a second book of poetry, subsequently lost
December 13 – Dr. Samuel Johnson (born 1709), English writer, poet, lexicographer, editor and literary critic
Lê Quý Đôn (born 1726), Vietnamese, philosopher, poet, encyclopedist and government official
