1753 in Poetry - Births

Births

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  • John Frederick Bryant
  • Dhiro (died 1825), Indian, Gujarati-language devotional poet
  • George Ellis
  • William Roscoe (died 1831), English historian, poet and writer
  • Irayimman Tampi (died 1856), Indian, Malayalam-language poet in the court of Swati Tirunal Rama Varma; wrote Omana tinkal kitjavo, a "cradle song" (or lullaby) still popular in Malayalam
  • Phillis Wheatley (died 1784), United States poet, born about this time in what is now Senegal; became a slave at age 7
  • Ann Yearsley, née Cromartie, (died 1806), English poet and writer

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