1770 in poetry explained

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

Works published

Colonial America

• 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:
  • "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^[2]
  • 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.^[3]

United Kingdom

• John Armstrong, Miscellanies,^[4] poetry and prose by a physician writer
• Michael Bruce, Poems on Several Occasions^[4]
• Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, editor, Ancient Scottish Poems, an anthology^[4]
• Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in May^[4]
• Thomas Warton, Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Rowley Poems, criticism
• William Woty, Poetical Works^[4]

Other

• Martin Wieland, Graces, Germany^[5]
• 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

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 18th century in poetry
• 18th century in literature
• French literature of the 18th century
• Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be "storm and urge", "storm and longing", "storm and drive" or "storm and impulse"), a movement in German literature (including poetry) and music from the late 1760s through the early 1780s
• List of years in poetry
• Poetry

Notes and 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., 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., p. 21, 22
4. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
5. Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009