1767 in poetry
# 1767 in poetry

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

## Events

* About this year, the Sturm und Drang movement begins in German literature (including poetry) and music; it will last through the early 1780s. (The conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse").

## Works published

* Michael Bruce, Elegy Written in Spring
* Francis Fawkes, Partridge-Shooting: An eclogue
* Oliver Goldsmith, editor, The Beauties of English Poesy, an anthology
* Francis Hopkinson, the Psalms of David [...] in Metre, English, Colonial America
* Richard Jago, Edge-Hill; or, The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised
* Henry Jones, Kew Gardens
* Moses Mendes, editor, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, an anthology
* William Mickle, The Concubine (reissued as Sir Martin 1778)
* John Wesley and Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Use of Families
* Phillis Wheatley, a poem published in the Newport Mercury in Rhode Island. The author at this time was a 13-year-old slave girl in Boston, Massachusetts who had learned English at the age of seven when she arrived in America in 1761; Colonial America

## Works wrongly said to be published this year

* Oliver Goldsmith, editor, Poems for Young Ladies, an anthology; although the book states it was published this year, it first appeared in 1766

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* March 1 – Alexander Balfour (died 1829), Scottish novelist, short-story writer and poet
* September 8 – August Wilhelm Schlegel (died 1845), German poet, translator, critic, and a leader of German Romanticism

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* May 17 – Roger Wolcott (born 1679), English Colonial American, governor of Connecticut and poet
* June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann (died 1681), German composer and poet
* July 15 – Michael Bruce (born 1746), Scottish poet
* December 21 – Leonard Howard (born 1699?), English clergyman, "poet laureate of the King's Bench Prison"
