This article covers 1780 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Contents

• Works published
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Other
• Births
• Deaths
• See also
• Notes

Works published

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 29 – Walter Watson (died 1854), Scottish poet and weaver
• April 29 – Charles Nodier (died 1844), French philologist, novelist, poet and librarian
• August 17 – George Croly (died 1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and clergyman
• September 11 (bapt.)– John Marriott (died 1825), English clergyman and poet
• Paul Moon James (died 1854), English Quaker banker and poet
• Jahonotin Uvaysiy (died 1845), Uzbek Sufi poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 18 – Kristijonas Donelaitis (born 1714), Lithuanian poet
• September 6 – George Alexander Stevens (born 1710), English performer, playwright, poet and songwriter
• October 3 – Cynthia Lenige (born 1755), Frisian Dutch poet
• Angom Gopi (born 1710), Indian, Meitei language poet, writer and translator
• Joseph Green (born 1706), Colonial American poet, satirist and clergyman
• Antonina Niemiryczowa (born 1702), Polish poet

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• French literature of the 18th century
• Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

Notes