1780 in poetry

This article covers 1780 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published

United Kingdom

• Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Aragon, Part 1 (complete work first published in The Works of mrs Cowley 1813)
• George Crabbe, The Candidate, published anonymously in July
• Herbert Croft, The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980, published anonymously; satirical epitaphs on contemporary public figures
• Susannah Harrison, Songs in the Night, "By a Young Woman Under Deep Afflictions", the book went into 15 editions by 1823
• William Hayley, An Essay on History
• Anna Seward, Elegy on Captain Cook, on James Cook, who died February 13, 1779, in Hawaii

United States

• John Andre, "Cow-Chace, in Three Cantos, Published on Occasion of the Rebel General Wayne's Attack of the Refugees Block-House on Hudson's river, on Friday the 21st of July, 1780
• Joel Barlow, An Elegy on the Late Honorahble Titus Hosmer
• Samuel Dexter, The Progress of Science
• Timothy Dwight IV, attributed, America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies
• Jonathan Odell, attributed, "The American Times"

Other

• Christoph Martin Wieland, Oberon, Germany

Births

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

• March 29 – Walter Watson (died 1854), Scottish poet and weaver
• April 29 – Charles Nodier (died 1844), French philologist, novelist, poet and librarian
• August 17 – George Croly (died 1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and clergyman
• September 11 (bapt.) – John Marriott (died 1825), English clergyman and poet
• Paul Moon James (died 1854), English Quaker banker and poet
• Jahonotin Uvaysiy (died 1845), Uzbek Sufi poet

Deaths

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

• February 18 – Kristijonas Donelaitis (born 1714), Lithuanian poet
• September 6 – George Alexander Stevens (born 1710), English performer, playwright, poet and songwriter
• October 3 – Cynthia Lenige (born 1755), Frisian Dutch poet
• Angom Gopi (born 1710), Indian, Meitei language poet, writer and translator
• Joseph Green (born 1706), Colonial American poet, satirist and clergyman
• Antonina Niemiryczowa (born 1702), Polish poet

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• 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
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

Notes