1784 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

  • January 31 – Bernard Barton (died 1849), Quaker poet
  • July 27 - Denis Davydov (died 1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
  • October 19 – Leigh Hunt (died 1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
  • November 17 – Julia Nyberg (died 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter.
  • December 7 – Allan Cunningham (died 1842), Scottish poet and author

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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.
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