The Friend of Man. Born Feb. 22, 1732. Died, at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 1799. Aged 68. An Original Composition, including a poem by Susanna Haswell Rowson writing under the pseudonym "a citizen of Massachusetts", Boston: Printed at Boston, by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, anthology Hymns and Odes Composed on the Death of General George Washington, contributors include Thomas Paine, Charles Brockton Brown and Richard Alsop Works published in other languages Pritharam Dvija, translator, Svargarohan Parva, translation into Assamese from the original Sanskrit of the last canto of the Mahabharata; India Christian Adolf Overbeck, translator, Anakreon und Sappho, from the original Ancient Greek of Anacreon and Sappho; Lubeck: F. Bohn Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: September 28 – Sibella Elizabeth Miles (died 1882), English poet, writer and schoolteacher October 14 – Charles Neaves (died 1876), Scottish judge and poet October 18 – Sir Henry Taylor (died 1884), English playwright, author and poet October 25 – Thomas Babington Macaulay (died 1859), English poet, historian and Whig politician of Scottish ancestry December 4 – Emil Aarestrup (died 1856), Danish Also: c.1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English Asir Muzaffar Ali Khan (died 1861), Urdu-language Indian poet also writing in Persian and whose ghazals are compiled into six diwans Godavardhana (died 1851), Kerala-born Indian poet writing many of his poems in Sanskrit Mohammad Momin Khan, (died 1851), Indian, Urdu-language poet (surname: Momin) Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 23 – Joseph Warton (born 1722), English poet and critic April 25 – William Cowper, pronounced "Cooper" (born 1731), English poet and hymn writer June 29 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (born 1719), German September 29 – Michael Denis (born 1729), Austrian writer, poet, translator, librarian and zoologist December 26 – Mary Robinson (born 1757), English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and royal mistress Also: Arnimal (birth year not known), Indian, Kashmiri poet; a woman Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (born 1743), Irish noblewoman and poet, composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire See also Poetry List of years in poetry 18th century in poetry 19th century in poetry List of years in literature 18th century in literature 19th century in literature Romantic poetry Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich