1777 in poetry

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

Events

 * March 1 (Saint David's Day) – Welsh ship's surgeon David Samwell, on board HMS Resolution in the Pacific Ocean on the second voyage of James Cook, writes a penillion.

United Kingdom

 * Thomas Chatterton, Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, published anonymously, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt; published February 8 (see also Tyrwhitt, A Vindication 1782)
 * William Combe:
 * The Diaboliad, published anonymously, misdated "1677"; directed at Simon, Lord Irnham
 * The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly
 * Thomas Day, The Desolation of America, published anonymously
 * William Dodd, Thoughts in Prison
 * William Roscoe, Mount Pleasant, published anonymously
 * Thomas Warton, the younger, Poems: A new edition
 * Paul Whitehead, Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions

United States

 * Anonymous, Song: made on the taking of General Burgoyne, a broadside of 21 four-line verses, published with no information on the place or printer
 * Anonymous ("H. I."), Faction: a sketch; or, a summary of the causes of the present most unnatural and indefensible of all rebellion's [sic] (sic), "Written at New-York, February, 1776", published this year in New York, 8 pages
 * Thomas Dawes, The Law Given at Sinai
 * Francis Hopkinson, "Camp Ballad"

Other

 * Solomon Gessner, works, German-language, Switzerland; in two volumes, published this year and in 1777
 * Pierre Le Tourneur, Poésies galliques, translation into French from the original English of James Macpherson's Ossian poems

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 27 – Lukijan Mušicki (died 1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot
 * March 14 – John Blair Linn (died 1804), American
 * July 27 – Thomas Campbell (died 1844), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
 * December 2 – Hendrik Doeff (died 1837), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator, editor and composer
 * February 3 – Hugh Kelly (born 1739), Irish poet and dramatist
 * March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
 * August 26 – Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
 * September 24 (bur.) – James Fortescue (born 1716), English
 * October 12 (October 1 O.S.) – Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and dramatist
 * December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
 * Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
 * Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German