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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1778. 1778 (MDCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

(born 1710) August 20 – Joseph Spence, English memoirist and professor of poetry (born 1699) November 25 – Alexander Russell, Scottish physician and naturalist...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1778. October – On her father's death, novelist Sarah Scott receives a legacy...

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The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. The chair was created in 1708 by an endowment from the estate of Henry...

This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Contents:  Top...

the comedy of manners The Rivals, is premièred at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, then extensively rewritten. It reopens on January 28 to acclaim. The...

Figaro as La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris. It runs for 68 consecutive performances, earning higher box-office...

Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century is published anonymously and posthumously in London, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt, who still...

literature's Golden Age was in the 12th century, when a rich and complex body of lyrical poetry was produced by troubadours writing in Old Occitan, which still...

Shakespeare – Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens (by Edmond Malone) Horace Walpole...

Antonín Strnad completes an inventory of the contents of the Clementinum in Prague, which becomes a national library. unknown date – Rudolf Erich Raspe...

private Ducal Palace in Weimar. October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London. Richard Graves...

their account of English poetry in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance was unrivalled for many years, and played a part in steering British literary...

Peter Pindar) – More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians See also 1783 in poetry James Beattie – Dissertations Moral and Critical William Beckford – Dreams...

The English actor John Philip Kemble makes his stage début, as Theodosius in Nathaniel Lee's eponymous tragedy, at Wolverhampton, England, with the Crump...

theatre in Amsterdam is destroyed by fire. June At Marseilles, the Marquis de Sade embarks on an orgy, as a result of which he is convicted in absentia...

November 2016. Ian Lancashire. "Selected Poetry of Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778)". Representative Poetry Online. Archived from the original on 28...

of Telugu poetry. In the 19th century, scholar Charles Philip Brown noted "the learned despise couplets because the poems thus written are in a flowing...

the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings...

Thomas Brown FRSE (9 January 1778 – 2 April 1820) was a Scottish physician, philosopher, and poet. Renowned as a physician for his structured thinking...

differs most notably from poetry, in which language is organized by a rhythmic metre, a rhyme scheme, writing formatted in verse, or other more intentionally...

that Macpherson largely composed the poems himself, drawing in part on traditional Gaelic poetry he had collected. The work was internationally popular, translated...

Italian poetry is a category of Italian literature. Italian poetry has its origins in the thirteenth century and has heavily influenced the poetic traditions...

A Description of Strawberry-Hill Thomas Warton – The History of English Poetry, volume 1 John Wesley – Thoughts upon Slavery January 1 – Pietro Giordani...

Ugo Foscolo (Italian: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo, fɔs-]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – "Erlkönig" William Hayley – An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason William Mason An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah...

Scottish poet Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by John Wilson in Kilmarnock in 612 copies (the text having been submitted...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 18 - English poet and...