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1775 in poetry

1775 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1775 in poetry


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Events

October 26 - Phillis Wheatley sends a poem and letter to General George Washington in his honor. He responded to her in 1776.[1]

Works published

Samuel Johnson in 1775 by Joshua Reynolds

Colonial America

  • Anna Young Smith, published under the pen name "Sylvia", "An Elegy to the Memory of the America Volunteers", published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, Colonial America[2]
  • Philip Freneau:
    • "General Gage's Soliloquy"[3]
    • "General Gage's Confession"[3]
    • "A Voyage to Boston"[4]
    • "American Liberty"[4]
    • "A Political Litany"[4]
  • John Trumbull, first two cantos of M'Fingal, a satire on American Tories during the American Revolution (later published in completed form in 1782)[3]

United Kingdom

Births

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Deaths

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See also


Notes

  1. Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5, pp 36-37
  2. Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
  3. Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
  4. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 16021983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  5. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  6. Web page titled "Selected Bibliography: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)""By Alan T. McKenzie, Purdue University, and B. Eugene McCarthy, College of the Holy Cross / Last revised 14 December 2001", retrieved July 25, 2009. 2009-07-29.
  7. "Bulmer, Agnes" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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