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

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

• 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^[2]
• Joel Barlow, An Elegy on the Late Honorahble Titus Hosmer^[2]
• Samuel Dexter, The Progress of Science^[2]
• Timothy Dwight IV, attributed, America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies^[2]
• Jonathan Odell, attributed, "The American Times"^[2]

• Christoph Martin Wieland, Oberon, Germany

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

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

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• 18th century in poetry
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• 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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