1770 in poetry
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Works published
Colonial America">American poetry">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:
- * "On the Affray in King Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770" about the Boston Massacre which had taken place near Wheatley's home
- * an elegy to George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim. It was published within weeks of his death as a broadside in Boston, then in Newport, Rhode Island, then four more times in Boston and a dozen more times in New York, Philadelphia and Newport. It was published in London in 1771.
United Kingdom">English poetry">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
- Martin Wieland, Graces, Germany
- Voltaire, Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs ; France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 1 - Robert Anderson, English Cumbrian dialect poet
- March 20 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German
- April 7 - William Wordsworth, English Poet Laureate
- April 11 - George Canning, English prime minister and occasional poet
- December 9 bapt. - James Hogg, Scottish poet and novelist writing in both Scots and English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- c. January - William Falconer, Scottish poet
- June 21 - Charlotta Frölich, Swedish writer
- June 23 - Mark Akenside, British poet and physician
- August 24 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry, suicide by arsenic poisoning rather than death by starvation aged 17; although his death is little noticed at the time, he is later an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics
- Also:
- * Friedrich Carl Casimir von Creuz, German
- * Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Scottish Gaelic poet
- * Kunchan Nambiar, Malayalam language poet, performer, satirist