1790 in poetry

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## Events

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* March - Jens Baggesen returns to Denmark. After ridiculing his fellow Danes in his poem, Holger the Dane and leaving the country for Germany, Baggensen proceeded to Switzerland and became a good friend of the Swiss poet Johan Kaspar Lavater and a leader in the Sturm und Drang movement.[1]
* May 21 - Thomas Warton dies. He is succeeded as Poet Laureate of Great Britain by writer and police magistrate Henry James Pye (who has just retired as a Member of Parliament) following William Hayley's refusal of the office.

## Works published

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* Joanna Baillie, published anonymously, Poems[2]
* William Blake, published anonymously, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, illuminated book with 27 relief-etched plates
* Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" Scottish, written
* Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), Gardd o Gerddi, Welsh
* George Ellis, ed., Specimens of the Early English Poets
* Anne Francis, anonymously published "by a lady", then reissued this year under the author's name, Miscellaneous Poems[2]
* Robert Merry, The Laurel of Liberty[2]
* William Sotheby, Poems[2]
* Ann Yearsley, Stanzas of Woe[2]

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* Peter Markoe, the Reconciliation; or, The Triumph of Nature, an unproduced opera in verse[3]
* Sarah Wentworth Morton, published under the name "Philenia, a Lady of Boston", Ouabi; or, The Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos,[4] narrative poem portraying a love triangle between an Indian chief, his wife and an aristocrat from Europe; set to music in 1793 by Hans Graham; the poem inspired Louis James Bacon to write the play The American Indian in 1795[5]
* Mercy Otis Warren, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous,[4] the first work printed under the author's own name; includes verse tragedies; many of the poems promote republican virtues and show women as moral authorities[5]

## Births

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* January 1 - James Wills (died 1868), Irish writer and poet
* January 10 - Anders Abraham Grafström (died 1870), Swedish historian, priest and poet
* July 8 - Fitz-Greene Halleck (died 1867), American
* October 21 - Alphonse de Lamartine (died 1869), French writer, poet and politician
* date unknown - Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq (died 1854), Urdu poet

## Deaths

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* May 21 - Thomas Warton (born 1728), English literary historian, critic and Poet Laureate of Great Britain
* July 25 - William Livingston (born 1723), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer
* August 22 - Andrew Macdonald (born 1757), Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright

## See also

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## Notes

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1. ^ Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner (1938). The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day. New York: Dial Press. p. 179.
2. ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602-1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
4. ^ a b 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
5. ^ a b Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

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