1773 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Poems
• Robert Ferguson, Poems
• William Mason, An Heroic Epistle o Sir William Chambers
• Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, the first book of poetry by an American slave, including "On Being Brought from Africa to America". The book was published in Aldgate, London because publishers in Boston, Massachusetts, had refused to publish the text. Wheatley and her master's son, Nathanial Wheatley, went to London, where Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and the Earl of Dartmouth helped with the publication.

Births

• Reginald Heber

Deaths

• Andrew Brice
• John Cunningham
• Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, also known as Lord Chesterfield

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry