Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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

• April 3 – Washington Irving (died 1859), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
• April 21 – Reginald Heber (died 1826), English Anglican bishop, poet and hymn writer
• September 8 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (died 1872), Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and nationalist politician^[3]
• September 23 – Jane Taylor (died 1824), English poet and novelist
• December 10 – María Bibiana Benítez (died c.1873), Puerto Rican poet and playwright

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

• January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (born 1698), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
• January 10 – Phanuel Bacon (born 1700) English clergyman, playwright, poet and author
• July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German
• July 15 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般), and took the pseudonym Tatsunojō (born 1702), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
• October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright
• November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
• December 12 – John Scott, 53 (born 1731), English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
• Approximate date – John Seccomb (born 1708), American clergyman and poet^[4]

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• 18th century in poetry
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• French literature of the 18th century
• Sturm und Drang (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"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
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