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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1786. 1786 (MDCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The English actor John Philip Kemble makes his stage début, as Theodosius in Nathaniel Lee's eponymous tragedy, at Wolverhampton, England, with the Crump...
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  • about the literary events and publications of 1786. January 19 – Franziska Stading plays the female lead in Gustav Vasa (with libretto personally overseen...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Peter Pindar) – More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians See also 1783 in poetry James Beattie – Dissertations Moral and Critical William Beckford – Dreams...
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  • Sunthorn Phu (born 1786), Thai Poetry portal 19th century in poetry 19th century in literature List of years in poetry List of years in literature Victorian...
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  • Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century is published anonymously and posthumously in London, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt, who still...
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – "Erlkönig" William Hayley – An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason William Mason An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah...
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  • Garden in London. July – Molière's body is exhumed for reburial in the Museum of French Monuments in Paris, having been originally buried in the ground...
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    John Wilson of Kilmarnock on 31 July 1786. It was the first published edition of Burns' work. In mid-April 1786, Burns sent out printed Proposals for...
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  • Antonín Strnad completes an inventory of the contents of the Clementinum in Prague, which becomes a national library. unknown date – Rudolf Erich Raspe...
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    who became pregnant with twins in March 1786. Burns signed a paper attesting his marriage to Jean, but her father "was in the greatest distress, and fainted...
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    Church" is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie. The poem's theme is contained in the final verse: In the eight-stanza...
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  • – Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the radical Analytical Review in London. May 10 – Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern)...
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    Sylvia Plath. Kamala Das' first book of poetry, Summer in Calcutta was a breath of fresh air in Indian English poetry. She wrote chiefly of love, betrayal...
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    ISBN 0-19-501898-2 Jefferson, Thomas (1961) [1786], "Thoughts on English Prosody", in Hemphill, George (ed.), Discussions of Poetry: Rhythm and Sound, Boston: D.C....
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  • Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. May 21 – Tomás António Gonzaga is arrested for complicity in the Inconfidência Mineira in Brazil. May 26 – Friedrich...
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  • Times) is first published, in London. The Paris theatre company Théâtre des Variétés-Amusantes moves to a temporary new building in the gardens of the Palais-Royal...
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  • ma chambre (Voyage Around my Room, published 1794) while under arrest in Turin in the Kingdom of Sardinia, as the result of a duel. May – Following the...
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    alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of the Germanic languages, where scholars use the term 'alliterative poetry' rather broadly to indicate...
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    of 1796. Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of...
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    Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion. In the history of literature, it is often studied in connection with orality, performance...
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  • Fall of the Roman Empire in the small summerhouse in his garden in Lausanne, Switzerland. July – Friedrich Schiller arrives in Weimar. November 21 – François-Joseph...
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  • Icelandic literature is usually divided into three parts: Eddic poetry Sagas Skaldic poetry There has been some discussion on the probable etymology of the...
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  • information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Burns is appointed an exciseman in Scotland. Tomás António Gonzaga...
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  • nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 17 – The Edinburgh edition of Scottish poet Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish...
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  • nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement ended in German literature (including poetry) and...
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