Overview of the events of 1772 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1772 in poetry
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Births
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- March 10 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (died 1829), German poet, literary critic, philosopher and philologist
- May 2 - Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) (died 1801), German Romantic writer, poet, philosopher, mystic and civil engineer
- September 27 - Sándor Kisfaludy (died 1844), Hungarian Romantic lyric poet
- October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (died 1834), English Romantic poet, literary critic and philosopher, a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets
- William Cliffton (died 1799), American[6]
- Hồ Xuân Hương (died 1822), Vietnamese woman poet born at the end of the Lê dynasty
Deaths
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