1791 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Title page from The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
American poetry
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American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional uni
1791 in poetry
…depicting the Revolutionary War, the only work by the author to be published under his own name Jenny Fenno, Occasional Compositions in Prose and Verse, United States Thomas Morris, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse…
Emily Dickinson
Title page of second (posthumous) edition of Anne Bradstreet's poems, 1678
Phillis Wheatley, a slave, wrote poetry during the colonial period.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1873.