1782 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

August 18 - English poet and artist William Blake marries Catherine Boucher at St Mary's Church, Battersea. In the same year, he meets his future patron, John Flaxman.

The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published anonymously in the Public Advertiser on November 14 (published with The Task 1785)
Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
Poems (see also Poems 1815)

The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published anonymously in the Public Advertiser on November 14 (published with The Task 1785)

Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk

Poems (see also Poems 1815)

John Freeth, Modern Songs, on Various Subjects

William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason

An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles ... Editor of a Superb Edition of the Poems of Thomas Rowley, attributed to Mason; written in the Rowleian dialect (see Thomas Chatterton's Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written ... by Thomas Rowley 1777)
King Stephen's Watch

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