1782 in poetry

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

Events

 * August 18 - English poet and artist William Blake marries Catherine Boucher at St Mary's Church, Battersea. In the same year, he meets his future patron, John Flaxman.

United Kingdom

 * William Cowper
 * The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published anonymously in the Public Advertiser on November 14 (published with The Task 1785)
 * Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
 * Poems (see also Poems 1815)
 * John Freeth, Modern Songs, on Various Subjects
 * William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry in Five Epistles to Mason
 * William Mason:
 * An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles ... Editor of a Superb Edition of the Poems of Thomas Rowley, attributed to Mason; written in the Rowleian dialect (see Thomas Chatterton's Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written ... by Thomas Rowley 1777)
 * King Stephen's Watch
 * Hannah More, Sacred Dramas, Chiefly intended for Young Persons, published anonymously, went through 24 editions by 1829
 * Edward Rushton, The Dismember'd Empire, published anonymously; attribution uncertain
 * John Scott, The Poetical Works of John Scott
 * John Walters, Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry
 * Joseph Warton, Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 (Volume 1 published in 1756), criticism
 * Helen Maria Williams, Edwin and Eltruda
 * John Wolcot writing under the pen name "Peter Pindar", Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians (see also More Lyric Odes 1783)

Other

 * Jacques Delille, Les Jardins ("The Gardens"), France
 * John Trumbull, M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem in Four Cantos, a satirical poem about American Tories during the American Revolution, is published in completed form (first two cantos published in 1778), United States
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Fischerin (Singspiel, including "Der Erlkönig"), Germany

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 30 - Ann Taylor (died 1866), English poet and literary critic
 * September 19 - Richard Lower (died 1865), English dialect poet
 * Irayimman Thampi (died 1856), Indian Carnatic music composer and poet

Deaths
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 * April 12 - Metastasio (born 1698), Italian poet and librettist
 * August 27 - Henriette Louise von Hayn (born 1724), German hymn writer