1763 in Poetry - Births

Births

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  • May 11 – János Batsányi (died 1845), Hungarian poet
  • June 15 – Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 (died 1828), Japanese poet and Buddhist priest known for his haiku poems and journals; widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki
  • July 30 – Samuel Rogers (died 1855), English poet
  • Also:
    • St. John Honeywood, (died 1798), American
    • James Hurdis (died 1801), rector of Bishopsgate in Sussex, professor of poetry in Oxford
    • Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins (died 1828), English novelist and occasional poet

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    As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    Francis Bacon (1561–1626)