1770 in poetry

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

Colonial America

 * William Billings, The New England Psalm-Singer
 * William Livingsotn:
 * "A Soliloquy"
 * "America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies"
 * John Trumbull, "An Essay on the Uses and Advantages of the Fine Arts"
 * Phillis Wheatley, a poetic tribute to George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim

United Kingdom

 * John Armstrong, Miscellanies, poetry and prose by a physician writer
 * Michael Bruce, Poems on Several Occasions
 * Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, editor, Ancient Scottish Poems, an anthology
 * Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in May
 * Thomas Warton, Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Rowley Poems, criticism
 * William Woty, Poetical Works

Other languages

 * Martin Wieland, Graces, Germany
 * Voltaire, Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs ("Letter to the author of The Three Impostors"); France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin (died 1843), German
 * April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (died 1850)
 * April 11 – George Canning (died 1827), English politician and statesman who became prime minister and wrote poetry
 * Also:
 * James Hogg (died 1835), Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English
 * Barbara Holland, English
 * James Plumptre (died 1832), English poet and writer

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * June 23 – Mark Akenside (born 1721), 48, British poet and physician
 * August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry (born 1752), suicide by arsenic poisoning rather than death by starvation at the young age of 17. Although his death was little noticed at the time, he was later an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics.
 * Also:
 * Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (born 1724), German
 * Francis Williams (born 1702), black Jamaican scholar and poet