Overview of the events of 1773 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1773 in poetry
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 31 – Ludwig Tieck (died 1853), German poet, translator, editor, novelist and critic
- August 21 – Jens Christian Djurhuus (died 1853), Faroese poet
- December 9 – Robert Treat Paine Jr. (died 1811), American poet and editor (son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence)[5]
- Joseph Harris (Gomer) (died 1825), Welsh Baptist minister, poet, writer and editor
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 5 – Philip Francis (born 1708), Irish-born English translator of the works of Horace, poet, playwright and clergyman[2]
- March 24 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (Lord Chesterfield) (born 1694) English statesman and man of letters
- August 3 – Stanisław Konarski (actual name: Hieronim Konarski) (born 1700), Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist friar and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment
- August 24 – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (born 1709), English statesman, patron of the arts and poet[2]
- September 18 – John Cunningham (born 1729), Irish-born poet, dramatist and actor, working in Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
- November 7 – Andrew Brice (born 1690), English printer and writer
- November 16 – John Hawkesworth (born c. 1715), English editor and poet