1770 in poetry

Works published

[[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.

[[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 ("Letter to the author of The Three Impostors"); France

Births

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

• February 1 – Robert Anderson (died 1833), English Cumbrian dialect poet
• March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin (died 1843), German
• April 7 – William Wordsworth (died 1850), English Poet Laureate
• April 11 – George Canning (died 1827), English prime minister and occasional poet
• December 9 bapt. – James Hogg (died 1835), Scottish poet and novelist writing in both Scots and English

Deaths

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

• c. January – William Falconer (born 1732), Scottish poet (lost at sea)
• June 21 – Charlotta Frölich (born 1698), Swedish writer
• June 23 – Mark Akenside (born 1721), 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 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 (born 1724), German
  • Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (born c.1698), Scottish Gaelic poet
  • Kunchan Nambiar (born 1705), Malayalam language poet, performer, satirist

Notes

References

1. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
2. Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. {{ISBN. 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 20
3. Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. {{ISBN. 978-0-465-01850-5, p. 21, 22
4. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
5. Thomas, Calvin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n9EPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22German+literature%22 ''A History of German Literature''], New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009