1770 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1760 . 1761 . 1762 . 1763 . 1764 . 1765 . 1766 ...; 1767 1768 1769 -1770- 1771 1772 1773; ... 1774 . 1775 . 1776 . 1777 . 1778 . 1779 . 1780 ... In literature: 1767 1768 1769 -1770- 1771 1772 1773
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

On August 24, Thomas Chatterton (born 1752), English poet and forger of medieval poetry, committed suicide by arsenic poisoning 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.

William Billings, The New England Psalm-Singer^[1]
William Livingsotn:
- "A Soliloquy"^[1]
- "America: or, A Poem on the Settlement of the British Colonies"^[1]
John Trumbull, "An Essay on the Uses and Advantages of the Fine Arts"^[1]
Phillis Wheatley, a poetic tribute to George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim

John Armstrong, Miscellanies,^[2] poetry and prose by a physician writer
Michael Bruce, Poems on Several Occasions^[2]
Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, editor, Ancient Scottish Poems, an anthology^[2]
Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in May^[2]
Thomas Warton, Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Rowley Poems, criticism
William Woty, Poetical Works^[2]

Martin Wieland, Graces, Germany^[3]
Voltaire, Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs ("Letter to the author of The Three Impostors"); France

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

- 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

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

- Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz (born 1724), German
- Francis Williams (born 1702), black Jamaican scholar and poet

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009

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