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

• 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.

• William Cowper
  • The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published anonymously in the Public Advertiser on November 14 (published with The Task 1785)^[1]
  • Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
  • Poems (see also Poems 1815)^[1]
• John Freeth, Modern Songs, on Various Subjects^[1]
• William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason^[1]
• William 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)^[1]
  • King Stephen's Watch^[1]
• Hannah More, Sacred Dramas, Chiefly intended for Young Persons, published anonymously, went through 24 editions by 1829^[1]
• Edward Rushton, The Dismember'd Empire, published anonymously; attribution uncertain^[1]
• John Scott, The Poetical Works of John Scott^[1]
• John Walters, Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry
• Joseph Warton, Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 (Volume 1 published in 1756), criticism
• Helen Maria Williams, Edwin and Eltruda^[1]
• John Wolcot writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (see also More Lyric Odes 1783)^[1]

• Jacques Delille, Les Jardins ("The Gardens"), France^[2]
• John Trumbull, M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos,^[3] a satirical poem about American Tories during the American Revolution, is published in completed form (first two cantos published in 1778), United States^[4]
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Fischerin (Singspiel, including "Der Erlkönig"), Germany

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 30 - Ann Taylor (died 1866), English poet and literary critic
• September 19 - Richard Lower (died 1865), English dialect poet
• Irayimman Thampi (died 1856), Indian Carnatic music composer and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 12 - Metastasio (born 1698), Italian poet and librettist
• August 27 - Henriette Louise von Hayn (born 1724), German hymn writer

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• Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
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