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A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this year. The scene shows the friends of Reynolds, including poets Samuel Johnson , Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Warton - many of whom were members of "The Club" (use cursor to identify).
William Cowper , Anti-Thelyphthora , published anonymously (see also Martin Madan 's Thelyphthora 1780 )[2]
George Crabbe , The Library , published anonymously[2]
Anne Francis , A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon [2]
William Hayley , The Triumphs of Temper [2]
George Keate , Poetical Works [2]
Samuel Jackson Pratt , Sympathy; or, A Sketch of the Social Passion , published anonymously[2]
Anna Seward , Monody on Major André , on John André , hanged as a spy in the American Revolution
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January 26 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (died 1831 ), German poet and novelist
March 17 – Ebenezer Elliott (died 1849 ), English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer
September 12 – John Grieve (died 1836 ), Scottish poet
November 6 – Lucy Aikin (died 1864 ), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator
November 29 – Andrés Bello (died 1865 ), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
December 25? – Sydney, Lady Morgan , née Owenson (died 1859 ), Irish novelist and poet
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Ainger, Alfred (1903). Crabbe . New York: Macmillan. pp. 31–32.
Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602– 1983 , 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Grun, Bernard (1991) [1946]. The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). p. 328.