Overview of the events of 1793 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France ).
Works published [ edit ]
Title page of The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker
William Blake :
America: A prophecy , illuminated book with 18 relief-etched plates[1]
For Children , illuminated book with 18 intaglio plates[1]
Visions of the Daughters of Albion , illuminated book with 11 relief-etched plates[1]
Lady Sophia Burell , Poems [1]
Robert Burns , Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect [1]
Joseph Ritson , The English Anthology , anthology[1]
Charlotte Smith , The Emigrants , dedicated to William Cowper [1]
George Thomson , A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice , published in four volumes from this year to 1799 ; Volume 1 has 59 songs by Robert Burns [1]
William Wordsworth :
Descriptive Sketches [1]
An Evening Walk [1]
Ann Yearsley , Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI [1]
Richard Alsop , American Poems [2]
Ann Eliza Bleecker , The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker , including 36 poems, 23 letters, an unfinished short historical novel, and a captivity narrative (also including Margarette Faugeres 's A Collection of Essays, Prose and Poetical [2] ), prose and poetry
Philip Freneau , "On the Anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille", in which the French Revolution is endorsed[3]
Elihu Hubbard Smith , editor, American Poems, Selected and Original , the first notable American poetry anthology; contains poems largely from the Hartford Wits group of Connecticut poets, including poems by friends of Smith such as John Trumbull , Joel Barlow , Timothy Dwight and Lemuel Hopkins , as well as Philip Freneau , William Livingston , Sarah Wentworth Morton and Robert Treat Paine ; Litchfield, Connecticut : Printed by Collier and Buel;[3] [4]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also [ edit ]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
^ a b Carruth, Gorton, The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates , ninth edition, HarperCollins, 1993
^ a b Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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