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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

Events

Works published

American poet Ann Eliza Bleecker died this year (engraving from frontispiece of Posthumous Works, 1793)

• William Blake, Poetical Sketches
• Jane Cave, Poems on Various Subjects
• George Crabbe, "The Village"
• John Hoole translates Orlando Furioso

Births

• Reginald Heber
• Washington Irving (US)
• Jane Taylor

Deaths

• Henry Brooke
• November 23 — Ann Eliza Bleecker (born 1752), American poet and correspondent
• December 12 — John Scott, 53, English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry

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