Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
William Bartram's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws contains enthusiastic descriptions of scenery that influence writers including
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who calls the book one of "high merit", and
William Wordsworth.[1]
Scottish poet
Robert Burns gives up farming for a full-time post as an
exciseman in
Dumfries, writes "
Ae Fond Kiss", "
The Banks O' Doon" and "
Sweet Afton", and publishes his last major poem, the narrative "
Tam o' Shanter" (written 1790 and first published on 18 March 1791 in the Edinburgh Herald; also published in F. Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland, volume 2, this year).
Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden,[2] consisting of two poems about scientific matters and their implications: "The Loves of the Plants", which became popular when it was originally published separately in
1789, and "The Economy of Vegetation", which celebrates technological innovation, scientific discovery and offers scientific theories. The poems, thought to be associated with the politics of the French Revolution and sexual licentiousness, were controversial (see the parody Loves of the Triangles1798)
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
William Bartram's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws contains enthusiastic descriptions of scenery that influence writers including
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who calls the book one of "high merit", and
William Wordsworth.[1]
Scottish poet
Robert Burns gives up farming for a full-time post as an
exciseman in
Dumfries, writes "
Ae Fond Kiss", "
The Banks O' Doon" and "
Sweet Afton", and publishes his last major poem, the narrative "
Tam o' Shanter" (written 1790 and first published on 18 March 1791 in the Edinburgh Herald; also published in F. Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland, volume 2, this year).
Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden,[2] consisting of two poems about scientific matters and their implications: "The Loves of the Plants", which became popular when it was originally published separately in
1789, and "The Economy of Vegetation", which celebrates technological innovation, scientific discovery and offers scientific theories. The poems, thought to be associated with the politics of the French Revolution and sexual licentiousness, were controversial (see the parody Loves of the Triangles1798)