Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
July 21 – Death of the
Scottish national poet,
Robert Burns ("Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard (of Ayrshire)"), in
Dumfries, at the age of 37. His funeral (with honours as a
military volunteer) takes place on July 25 while his wife,
Jean, is in labour with their ninth child together, Maxwell. Burns is at first buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries. The volume of The
Scots Musical Museum published this year includes his versions of the
Scots poem "
Auld Lang Syne" and "
Charlie Is My Darling".[1]
Poems, partly a reprint of poems originally published in
1795 and partly new works,[2] including "
After Blenheim" (see also Poems1799 and Minor Poems1813[2])
Joel Barlow. The Hasty Pudding, a mock epic on the virtues of
cornmeal mush, written in France; it became Barlow's most popular work[3]
William Cliffton, The Group; or, An Elegant Representation, political verses defending
Jay's Treaty and a satire on common people ignorantly discussing politics[4]
Thomas Morris, Quashy; or, The Coal-Black Maid, the author's most notable poem, describing the life of a black slave in
Martinique and criticizing the British and French systems of slavery[4]
Isaac Story, "All the World's a Stage", published under the
pen name "The Stranger", blank verse; includes popular satirical sketches[4]
St. George Tucker, The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar, popular book of anti-Federalist satires on
Alexander Hamilton,
John Adams and others; written in the style of
John Wolcot, who wrote under the
pen name "Peter Pindar"; first published in
1793 in The National Gazette, which was edited by
Philip Freneau, so the poems have been wrongly attributed to Freneau.[4]
Johann von Goethe and
Friedrich Schiller, Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797, published in October, including hundreds of epigrams, both cuttingly satirical (Xenien) and "tame" (zahm), constructive general comments on literature and art:
Xenien, 414 satirical epigrams targeting critics but with a broader aim of denouncing narrow-mindedness and poor-thinking among intellectuals, with each epigram a classical
distich composed of a
hexameter and
pentameter; published in October in Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797; principal critics targeted were
L. H. Jakob,
J. K. F. Manso, and
F. Nicolai; deep offense and bitter reaction resulted[6]
Tabulae votivae, 124 "tame" distichs organized into 103 tabulae[6]
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
July 21 – Death of the
Scottish national poet,
Robert Burns ("Rabbie Burns", "Scotland's favourite son", "the Ploughman Poet", "the Bard (of Ayrshire)"), in
Dumfries, at the age of 37. His funeral (with honours as a
military volunteer) takes place on July 25 while his wife,
Jean, is in labour with their ninth child together, Maxwell. Burns is at first buried in the far corner of St. Michael's Churchyard in Dumfries. The volume of The
Scots Musical Museum published this year includes his versions of the
Scots poem "
Auld Lang Syne" and "
Charlie Is My Darling".[1]
Poems, partly a reprint of poems originally published in
1795 and partly new works,[2] including "
After Blenheim" (see also Poems1799 and Minor Poems1813[2])
Joel Barlow. The Hasty Pudding, a mock epic on the virtues of
cornmeal mush, written in France; it became Barlow's most popular work[3]
William Cliffton, The Group; or, An Elegant Representation, political verses defending
Jay's Treaty and a satire on common people ignorantly discussing politics[4]
Thomas Morris, Quashy; or, The Coal-Black Maid, the author's most notable poem, describing the life of a black slave in
Martinique and criticizing the British and French systems of slavery[4]
Isaac Story, "All the World's a Stage", published under the
pen name "The Stranger", blank verse; includes popular satirical sketches[4]
St. George Tucker, The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar, popular book of anti-Federalist satires on
Alexander Hamilton,
John Adams and others; written in the style of
John Wolcot, who wrote under the
pen name "Peter Pindar"; first published in
1793 in The National Gazette, which was edited by
Philip Freneau, so the poems have been wrongly attributed to Freneau.[4]
Johann von Goethe and
Friedrich Schiller, Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797, published in October, including hundreds of epigrams, both cuttingly satirical (Xenien) and "tame" (zahm), constructive general comments on literature and art:
Xenien, 414 satirical epigrams targeting critics but with a broader aim of denouncing narrow-mindedness and poor-thinking among intellectuals, with each epigram a classical
distich composed of a
hexameter and
pentameter; published in October in Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797; principal critics targeted were
L. H. Jakob,
J. K. F. Manso, and
F. Nicolai; deep offense and bitter reaction resulted[6]
Tabulae votivae, 124 "tame" distichs organized into 103 tabulae[6]