1783 in poetry
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American poet Ann Eliza Bleecker died this year (engraving from frontispiece of Posthumous Works, 1793)
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[edit] Events
[edit] Works published
- William Blake, Poetical Sketches
- Jane Cave, Poems on Various Subjects
- George Crabbe, "The Village"
- John Hoole translates Orlando Furioso
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 3 – Washington Irving (died 1859), American author, essayist, biographer, historian and poet
- April 21 – Reginald Heber (died 1826) Church of England bishop, poet and hymn writer
- September 23 – Jane Taylor (died 1824), England poet and novelist
[edit] Deaths
Yosa Buson's grave
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 7 – Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer born 1719), German
- October 10 – Henry Brooke (born 1703) Irish poet and playwright
- November 23 – Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
- December 12 – John Scott, 53, English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
- date not known – Yosa Buson (born 1716), Japanese poet, known for his haiku

