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- Joanna Baillie, published anonymously, Poems[2]
- William Blake, published anonymously, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, illuminated book with 27 relief-etched plates
- Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" Scottish, written
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), Gardd o Gerddi, Welsh
- George Ellis, ed., Specimens of the Early English Poets
- Anne Francis, anonymously published "by a lady", then reissued this year under the author's name, Miscellaneous Poems[2]
- Robert Merry, The Laurel of Liberty[2]
- William Sotheby, Poems[2]
- Ann Yearsley, Stanzas of Woe[2]
- Peter Markoe, the Reconciliation; or, The Triumph of Nature, an unproduced opera in verse[3]
- Sarah Wentworth Morton, published under the name "Philenia, a Lady of Boston", Ouabi; or, The Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos,[4] narrative poem portraying a love triangle between an Indian chief, his wife and an aristocrat from Europe; set to music in 1793 by Hans Graham; the poem inspired Louis James Bacon to write the play The American Indian in 1795[5]
- Mercy Otis Warren, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous,[4] the first work printed under the author's own name; includes verse tragedies; many of the poems promote republican virtues and show women as moral authorities[5]
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Giovanni Bach, Richard Beck, Adolph B. Benson, Axel Johan Uppvall, and others, translated in part and edited by Frederika Blankner (1938). The History of the Scandinavian Literatures: A Survey of the Literatures of the Norway, Sweden, Denamark, Iceland and Finland From Their Origins to the Present Day. New York: Dial Press. p. 179.
Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press