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1792 in poetry

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United Kingdom

  • William Blake, Song of Liberty
  • Maria Cowper, Original Poems on Various Occasions, a cousin of William Cowper, who helped her revise poems before publication
  • Edward Jenningham, Stone Henge
  • Janet Little, The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid
  • Samuel Rogers, The Pleasures of Memory, 15 editions by 1806
  • Other

  • Tomás António Gonzaga (as 'Dirceu'), Marília de Dirceu, first part, Brazil in Portuguese
  • Francis Hopkinson, The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings of Francis Hopkinson, poetry and prose, posthumous, United States
  • Thomas Odiorne, "The Progress of Refinement", philosophical long poem on man and nature, a precursor to later Romantic poetry, United States
  • Rhijnvis Feith, Het Graf ("The Grave"), in four cantos, Netherlands
  • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • January 1 – Henrik Anker Bjerregaard (died 1842), Norwegian poet, dramatist and judge
  • February 10 – Ioan Tegid (John Jones) (died 1852), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
  • March 7 – John Herschel (died 1871), English polymath
  • April 25 – John Keble (died 1866), English churchman and poet
  • May 4 – Dorothea Primrose Campbell (died 1863), Scottish poet and novelist
  • August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley (died 1822), English Romantic poet and radical
  • December 18 – William Howitt (died 1879), English historical writer and poet
  • date not known – Andreas Kalvos Ἀνδρέας Κάλβος; (died 1869), Greek Romantic poet, writer and translator
  • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • January – Jenny Clow ("Clarinda") (born 1766), Scottish domestic servant, a mistress and muse of Robert Burns, of tuberculosis
  • John Edwards (born 1747), Welsh
  • Georg Luis (born 1714), German
  • References

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