1767 in poetry

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

Events

 * About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement begins in German literature (including poetry) and music; it will last through the early 1780s. (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").

Works published

 * Michael Bruce, Elegy Written in Spring
 * Francis Fawkes, Partridge-Shooting: An eclogue
 * Oliver Goldsmith, editor, The Beauties of English Poesy, an anthology
 * Francis Hopkinson, the Psalms of David [...] in Metre, English, Colonial America
 * Richard Jago, Edge-Hill; or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised
 * Henry Jones, Kew Gardens
 * Moses Mendes, editor, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, an anthology
 * William Mickle, The Concubine (reissued as Sir Martin 1778)
 * John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Use of Families
 * Phillis Wheatley, a poem published in the Newport Mercury in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761; Colonial America

Works wrongly said to be published this year

 * Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology; although the book states it was published this year, it first appeared in 1766

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 1 – Alexander Balfour (died 1829), Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet
 * September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel (died 1845), German poet, translator, critic, and a leader of German Romanticism

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * May 17 – Roger Wolcott (born 1679), English Colonial American, governor of Connecticut and poet
 * June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann (died 1681), German composer and poet
 * July 15 – Michael Bruce (born 1746), Scottish poet
 * December 21 – Leonard Howard (born 1699?), English clergyman, "poet laureate of the King's Bench Prison"